Saturday September 2, 2006 Taiwan Jay Chou’s new album “Still Fantasy” has been hit by music piracy again in China. The songs from the album have been sold illegal to users on the internet, leading to the songs to be leaked. Alfa Music announced that the album release will now be brought forward to September 5th yesterday, and at the same time warned that they will take legal action against any company or person that download the leaked songs illegally on them. If found to be guilty of such an offence, they will be punished to the full extend of the law! Album publishing staff ripped the album and sold it illegally online. “Still Fantasy” was originally decided to be released on 8th of September. Alfa Music decided at the very last minute to shift the album release to three days earlier, and the pre-order period will also end prematurely on the 4th. Alfa Music explained that the album was leaked from one of the factory staff working on the publishing of the new album, and the staff sold the album to an internet site, which began posting up the songs online for users to download yesterday afternoon. When Alfa Music received news of this in the evening, it immediately ordered the website to remove the download links. Unfortunately by that time, countless users have already downloaded the album from the site and have been spread to other sites. Alfa Music also found another website that is offering illegal download of a named Pres Chou new song, once Alfa confirmed that it is one of the song in the final copy of the new album, they immediately ordered the website to remove the song. The General Manager (of Alfa) Yang Jun Rong emphasized that in order to protect the rights of Jay Chou works and the company, the company will not tolerate any illegal activities regarding the new album, it is currently illegal in China (and just about everywhere else) for illegal downloading of music, which can lead to criminal sanctions. credits: Jay Chou International Fan Forum, asianfanatics.
