In related news, U2's Bono has spoken to Reuters about the distribution of his music online before it has been officially released.
"It's never nice to have a thief in charge of your release campaign. However, it's up there. Bootlegs are fine if you're making a few of them for your friends, but if it's big business, bad-ass crime, I don't think you want to be a part of that and that's what this is. I'm not afraid of music downloading. I think it works for us, not against us. Yes, our CD has been robbed, and yes it is on the air and people can get it for nothing, but our fans generally don't do that."
With U2's album shifting mega-units across the world this week that certainly seems to be true. Latest figures from the States suggest 'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb' could shift in excess of a million copies in its first week on sale which would be good news for Universal's Interscope label, who release U2's material there, especially coming so soon after the phenomenal success of one of their other artists - Eminem.