Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' Has Already Been Illegally Downloaded Over 750,000 Times

One of the most obvious side effects of the music industry's reliance on exclusives for retailers and streaming platforms is that it tends to make illegal downloads of those works skyrocket. Case in point: Kanye West's The Life of Pablo. Originally a TIDAL exclusive when it debuted back in February, Yeezy's latest LP pushed Jay Z's streaming music service to the top spot on Apple's App Store and was streamed over 250 million times in its first ten days of availability. Before it hit other platfo...