The article says their back catalog will only be downloadable for 25 hours. Is it possible to prevent new downloaders from joining a torrent swarm if you take down the original torrent file? Someone could just repost the original torrent file on a different torrent site.
I suppose their whole discography has been available as a torrent download for a long time anyway. The whole thing could have been made a whole lot easier, all they'd have had to do was to say: "Look, for the next 24 hours, we're not going to press charges on otherwise illegal file sharing."