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BRITISH BAND RADIOHEAD have released 18 hours of previously unreleased tracks made during recording sessions for their 1997 album OK Computer.
The release comes after minidisk archives belonging to frontman Thom Yorke were hacked and reportedly held to ransom for a large sum.
Radiohead has now released the tracks on Bandcamp for £18 (€20), with the proceeds all going to support the Extinction Rebellion climate change resistance campaign.
The band announced on Facebook that Yorke’s minidisk archive from the time of OK Computer had been hacked and that $150,000 (€132,500) had been reportedly demanded on threat of releasing it.
“So instead of complaining – much – or ignoring it, we’re releasing all 18 hours on Bandcamp in aid of Extinction Rebellion,” the band said.
“Never intended for public consumption (though some clips did reach the cassette in the OK Computer reissue) it’s only tangentially interesting.
And very, very long. Not a phone download. Rainy out, isn’t it though?
Yorke said that the collection was “not v interesting”.
There’s a lot of it … as it’s out there it may as well be out there until we all get bored and move on.
In a statement, the Extinction Rebellion campaign thanked the band for its “unprecedented support”.
Extinction Rebellion has become well-known in recent months for its protest and civil disobedience campaigns in London and elsewhere aimed at highlighting the inaction of world governments over climate change.
Radiohead fans will welcome the new material, which contains demos and recordings of OK Computer tracks, as well as alternative versions with different lyrics.
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Give over stop worrying about cyber attacks and threats on the national security and all that hse crap. Now we have more cycle lanes. What’s not to love!! Eamonn Ryan ye legend.
Was the name ever released of the big company that was hit by the ransomware hack ever released and the sum they paid?
I thought a private company was brought in to do the clean up
The defence forces could have retained the personnel that they lost through stupidity on their own behalf in not granting these personnel with an extra €20 in tech pay which they were value for money so the same were head hunted by private companies.
@Noel O’Neill: €20 a week. You think people are leaving over €20 a week?
A CIS technician can be on as low as 40k in the DF, while their counterparts in private sector are getting 80k plus.
€20 a week…. That gave me a giggle….
It only takes one rogue machine to bring a whole network down. As long as the antvirus software is kept continuously up to date, systems shouldn’t be compromised.
@Mike Dunne: Seriously you think anti virus works like that. It is a game of cat and mouse.
You cant have an antivirus program that stops a virus it does not know. Hence the updates.
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