Original Article By Hkon Moslet (translation by cindy kandolf) a-ha won't be releasing a new album until next autumn, but already now fans who know their way around the net can hear the new single. The group's [Norwegian] manager, Erling Johannessen, has told Dagbladet that he wants to stop this illegal distribution of "Summer Moved On". For the last four weeks, the new a-ha song has been available via a private homepage on Scandinavia Online. With the help of mp3 files, which are simple to download for anyone with Internet access, the song can be downloaded by the general public with crystal-clear sound quality. "The individual that has made the song available to the public does not have a-ha's permission," manager Johannessen says. DIGITAL BOOTLEG He plans to take the digital a-ha bootleg seriously. On Monday he will be contacting Scandinavia Online to get the a-ha song removed. "That an individual put the song on his Web page is at least understandable, but what concerns me is that such a large and serious ISP as Scandinavia Online is letting this happen," says Johannessen. The song is available at http://home.sol.no/~nilsth/ . Here one can find a clear, high-quality copy of the soundtrack from NRK's Nobel Concert broadcast. "Summer Moved On" is available in its entirety. With se Kleveland's introduction, the track is over five minutes long. Scandinavia Online director Kristin Skogen Lund has told Dagbladet that she will look into the matter. LOSS OF INCOME The reason a-ha and other artists are becoming ever more concerned about finding pirate recordings of their own songs on the net, can be summed up in one word: mp3. These files have become very wide-spread among Internet users because they mke it possible to download music with astonishingly good quality from the Web - free! The record companies' headaches have not become any less now that special mp3 players are for sale in Norwegian shops. "The mp3 technology can result in a huge loss of income for both artists and companies. Therefore we want to squelch this," says a-ha's manager Johannessen, who has had a busy week. On Thursday Petre [Norwegian radio channel] personality and a-ha fan Hvard Sylte layed an ancient demo version of "Take On Me" in his new program "Howard & HC". Sylte had gotten the track from a listener - via mp3. "A huge mistake of Petre to broadcast that," a-ha's manager concludes. He has taken the matter up with the station's music director.