German industrial act KMFDM is offering up a free new song called “Rebels in Control” in support of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, and as a protest against the denial-of-service attacks against companies such as PayPal and MasterCard that let supporters to contribute funds to the embattled organization.
For more than a week, the band replaced its full website with a single page that said “ALL SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN RIPPED. THE INTERNET HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN” and featured a stream of the track, which also can be streamed or downloaded below. Frontman Sascha Konietzko subsequently announced the song had been streamed more than 75,000 times.
According to Side-Line Music Magazine, Konietzko said: “If those streams were record sales, we would have scored a No. 1 single chart position in any major record selling territory. But actually my favorite part about the whole action we took was, that subsequently KMFDM.net was exposed to a massive DDoS attack!! WTF ?!”
Stream or download KMFDM’s ‘Rebels in Control’ after the jump…
“and as a protest against the denial-of-service attacks against companies such as PayPal and MasterCard that let supporters to contribute funds to the embattled organization.”
You are mistaken.
They were attacked because they DIDN’T let supporters donate to Wikileaks..
But why isn’t the song avaiable at KMFDM’s website? Was it only a stream, or was it a download as well?
Just click on the ‘download’ button on the player above, dur. It’s…the….down-arrow button on the right hand side of the player……Long live KMFDM, can’t wait for the new album this year!