{"id":226776,"date":"2010-01-25T13:48:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2010-01-25T13:48:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T18:48:29","slug":"diditleak-owner-dies-of-cancer-at-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/226776","title":{"rendered":"DidItLeak Owner Dies of Cancer at 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/media\/diditleak.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"alan\" \/>Alan Carton, the brain behind the music release info blog Diditleak died of cancer last week. Alan was 23 years old.<span id=\"more-1422\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Below is a passage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/music\/archives\/2010\/01\/the_life_and_de.php?page=1\">The Village<\/a>&#8217;s article on Alan, describing what he went though during the last years of his life.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;For two years, the Twitter account @diditleak was the secret weapon of online listeners and music critics alike. In real time, the account, which ultimately garnered over 11,500 followers, announced whenever a digital copy of a particularly desirable record first hit the Internet. For that it became a beloved resource of torrent-hungry music fans and writers angling for first listens. Using email tips and message-board-scouring alchemy, @diditleak seemed to know leaks better than anybody on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As many others, we used <a href=\"http:\/\/diditleak.co.uk\/\">Alan&#8217;s website<\/a> as a resource numerous times. It is sad to see such a brilliant man passing away at such an early age.<\/p>\n<p>Alan, you will be missed. <\/p>\n<p>Article from: <a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\">FreakBits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Carton, the brain behind the music release info blog Diditleak died of cancer last week. Alan was 23 years old. Below is a passage of the The Village&#8217;s article on Alan, describing what he went though during the last years of his life. &#8220;For two years, the Twitter account @diditleak was the secret weapon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4087,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}