James Holden's Border Community imprint recently shut down their ultra-popular message board until further notice.
The BC crew have released the following statement related to this matter:
"It has come to our attention that certain board members have been using this forum as a means to share upfront pre-release music from our label. This is obviously not the purpose for which this service was designed, and no record label can tolerate these sorts of practices going on right under our noses on our own messageboard.
As a label, we don't have the time to continuously monitor this situation and crackdown on the perpetrators. Therefore we have no choice but to terminate the messageboard service as of immediately.
We would like to offer our apologies to all the legitimate and sincere users of our messageboard, and thank you for your support. We hope you are able to understand why we have had to take this decision, and are sorry that the actions of a minority have spoiled things for everyone."
Not the only message board with such on-going things in the background...