Kanye West May Be a Pirate Bay User
Kanye West's latest album has been massively pirated in part because it's only available on the music streaming service Tidal. But a new photo posted by West shows that he himself may be a fan of illegal downloads. The rapper tweeted a picture of a YouTube video for the Sufjan Stevens' song "Death With Dignity." But one of the other open tabs in Kanye's browser appears to be The Pirate Bay, the Internet's black-market storefront for illegal torrents. It looks like Kanye may have been searching for an illegal download of a piece of Synthesizer software called Serum. Right next to the Pirate Bay tab is a page that seems to be for the legal version of Serum, while the Pirate Bay page looks to be a search query that starts with the same letters, "Xfe.", Electronic DJ deadmau5 took this incriminating evidence as fact, and called West out on Twitter. Serum was developed by the record label deadmau5 co-founded, so he has extra reason to be upset if Kanye or others pirate the software. , This is still just scratching the surface of the multitudes contained in Kanye's tweet. He captioned the picture with the message "Day 3," implying that the Sufjan Stevens song could be sampled on his upcoming album Turbo Grafx 16.