Lie of Pablo: Churchillian tweet gets Kanye West in trouble

Baker-Rhett v. Aspiro AB, 2018 WL 3094921, No. 16-cv-5801-GHW (S.D.N.Y. Jun. 22, 2018)“On February 15, 2016, Kanye West tweeted that his new album—The Life of Pablo—‘will never never never be on Apple. And it will never be for sale … You can only get it on Tidal.’ Six weeks later, the album was on Apple, and was for sale on sites other than Tidal, the online streaming service operated by defendant Aspiro.”  [Should have left in some caveats for "honour and good sense," Churchill might have told him.] Aspiro launched in 2014, but struggled for survival despite its backing from its artist-owners such as West.  West’s 26 million Twitter followers were exposed to his tweet, and the official Tidal account also tweeted “It’s streaming exclusively on TIDAL.com.” Within the first ten days of the release of The Life of Pablo, Tidal’s subscription numbers tripled from 1 million to 3 million, and…

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