Thats cool...I figured as much. But since we were talking about dubious Eastern European sites I thought I would chime in....
No harm no foul.
The two sites discussed earlier in the thread are selling lossless audio tracks, of material U2 has specifically chosen to release already to online shops, such as the "Magnificent" single, the live "Joshua Tree" album, and "Original of the Species (Single Version)". We've known these are approved released tracks as they've been well documented, and have appeared on legitimate sites such as 7digital and iTunes UK. What makes these stores interesting is this is the first time that these have been made for sale in a lossless format as far as I know. I did manage to get my hands on some tracks from the Polish store, and we haven't been able to say they aren't from a lossless source. It suggests U2 may have made these tracks available.
The site I removed the link from appears to be an enterprising third party store. They have material there which has not been made available for commercial purchase, such as the most recent fan club discs. Just quickly looking i saw U22, the Super Deluxe discs sold separate, a rip of the audio of the Popmart DVD and the Rose Bowl DVD, some bootlegs ("Golden Unplugged", "Vertigo World Tour", "Inside and Out", "Hampden Park", "Papaya Remixes for Propaganda"), and Interview Discs ("Maximum U2"). While we may question the two European sites listed earlier in the thread, there's no evidence they aren't legitimately licensed to sell U2 material, while the one who's link I removed clearly is trading in material not approved for sale by U2.
I did a lot of looking around the web and many of the reviews suggest the same thing - that it appears to be a site where someone's downloaded a bunch of material off the web and created a store front to sell the tracks for cheap. As such it does circumvent the RIAA and other such organizations who have worked to set minimum pricing on individual tracks.
We have an agreement with Universal publishing that allows us to carry the lyrics on the site. We are one of the few sites that I know of on the internet that has such a working agreement with Universal and we do our best to not stray into the grey areas of "U2 on the internet" in return so as to not risk that agreement. The first two sites may be leaving people wonder "is this real?" but the third doesn't leave a lot of doubt that it's not legitimate to me. I do thank you for the time in finding the link and posting it here. It's great to bring information here to share with fellow fans and I thank anyone for doing so. Just in this case I wasn't comfortable with the link itself.
Just wanted to clearly point out why I removed the one and not the other two, sorry I didn't have more time last night to go into detail.
