Despite letting music fans name their own price for its latest album, Radiohead is finding that some still like downloading their songs illegally, according to Forbes. On the same day that Radiohead’s In Rainbows became available, about 240,000 users downloaded the album from illicit P2P BitTorrent sites, Forbes said, citing Big Champagne, a LA-based tracker of online copyright violators. After that the album was downloaded roughly 100,000 more times daily, totaling 500,000 unauthorised downloads. And while that’s still less than the 1.2 million authorised album downloads tallied by Gigwise.com, Big Champaign expects the illegals to outpace legals. So far, the average price users are paying for In Rainbows on Radiohead’s site has been in the $5 (£2.46) to $8 (£3.94) range, according to Wired.

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