Life of Pablo illegally downloaded half a million times

- The new album from Kanye West, The Life of Pablo, has quickly whopping 500,000 times downloaded illegally. Legally, the board only be heard via streaming service Tidal, so people who do not subscribe to this and also do not want to subscribe, appear en masse to pay less legal ways to listen to the album anyway.

The Life of Pablo is currently by far the most shared album on download site The Pirate Bay, reports download blog TorrentFreak. Although the album would anyway be downloaded much, leave many Kanye fans through social media to know now feel 'forced' to download it illegally because he can get nowhere else.

It is not known whether the exclusivity in Tidal also has meant that the number of subscribers has increased significantly. The service of rapper Jay-Z was launched with great fanfare last year, but did not really have put the music market on its head.