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U2 album stolen by web pirates

U2 frontman Bono showing off the new U2 iPod
Metro12 April 2012
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Pirated versions of the new U2 album have appeared on Internet file-sharing networks - a fortnight before the official release date.

A band spokesman said it knew of the illicit copies of How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb but had made no decision on changing the November 22 European release date.

Rough tracks from the album - the band's first in four years - went missing from a recording studio in Nice, France, in the summer. The band warned at the time that the incident might bring forward the release of the album.

Release dates of albums by US rapper Eminem and hip hop star Snoop Dogg have been brought forward by a few days in the last month due to the appearance online of pirated tracks.

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