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		_Codemonkeyism on June 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker ... So someone who still a MD now is a hacker instead of a thief?

adwww on June 13, 2019 [–]

They probably already had access to the files through their work in a studio or whatnot. Still a thief, but not by literally stealing a physical minidisk (most likely).

_Codemonkeyism on June 13, 2019 | [–]

The article literally says

"last week stole lead vocalist Thom Yorke’s minidisk archive"

He stole the minidisks.

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