Few days ago, a new song by Wizkid and his new collaborator Drake appeared online to the excitement of fans all over.
The track ‘Hush Up The Silence (Come Closer)’ admittedly sounded like it was unfinished, but it didn’t matter to the millions of Wizkid fans across the world.
Nigerian Entertainment Today can authoritatively confirm that the song leak has not gone down well with Wizkid’s new handlers at SONY Music.
Only yesterday, we received an email from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry that appealed to us at Thenetng to assist in taking down the song. The IFPI is a trade association of record companies in the US (of which SONY Music is a part of).
The mail reads in part: ‘We have learned that your service is making available, distributing and/or referring/linking users to infringing copies of the following sound recordings, the copyrights in which are exclusively owned or controlled by one or more IFPI Represented Companies. We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this unauthorised activity.’
However, a quick search of the track in question revealed that Thenetng might not have been the only media house to have received this notice as several other sites which have hosted the track have since taken it down.
International platforms such as Miss Info, XXL, Highsnobiety and Complex Magazine no longer have the song up. The Soundcloud link plays a different track entirely or the page goes to an unrelated one. Over at Pulse.ng the page redirects to an Error 404 page. Nevertheless, a few smaller sites still have the song up.
Usually leaked songs are regarded as theft by the owners of the copyrights and they tend to be very unhappy about it, especially in countries like the USA where intellectual copyright laws are very stringent.
For a few years now, SONY has been the victim of malicious hacks, with a 2014 hack of their email servers that revealed official correspondences, proprietary information and employees’ Social Security numbers.
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