Snow World

Follow up:

Infographic: There are a number of opportunities for an album to make it into the public’s hands between its completion and its release.

1. At the Studio (4 months before release) - As soon as a record is finished, anyone from the producer to the engineer to the band members can spoil the fun.
2. At the Label (3 1/2 months before release) - Labels send albums to companies like Sonic Arts to add a digital encryption code that can identify uploading evildoers… but not necessarily to stop them.
3. By the Press (3 months before release) - Considerd to be the most common source of album leakage, watermarks, or not. Oops!
4. At the Plant (1 month before release) - While in the process of being manufactured, a CD is ostensibly secured under lock and key, but sometimes copies fall off the back of trucks.
5. At the Warehouse (2 weeks before release) - Once CDs await shipping to retailers, it’s virtually guaranteed that a copy will find its way online.
6. At Retail - And, of course, once an album is available for sale online or in stores, all bets are off.

Source: http://medanmusic.blogspot.com