Jimmy Lin's new song is pirated before his EP is released next month

Jimmy Lin, David Tao, and Vic Zhou are the spokesmen for a famous soft drink in china. Jimmy will endorse the Iced Green Tea. The commercial was filmed a few days ago in Hong Kong. In the commercial, Jimmy will become a pro racer to go with the product’s cool image.

Jimmy spent his own money and hired the award winning special effect director of ‘Initial D’, 黄宏显 and a renowed New York musican Keith to write the song 《胜利的滋味》 and 崔恕 to write the lyrics. The style is rock and roll and the song will be in his new EP to be released next month.

However, the commercial hasn’t even aired and the song has already been listed on a ringtone site for illegal download and the version is even the Demo copy. Jimmy thought it was leaked from the studio and has asked lawyers to sue the site for copyright violations.

His manager Grace said indignantly yesterday, “Piracy is a serious matter. The song has not even been finished. We know it has to be leaked from the studio. We have traced the source to a Fujian ringtone dlownload site. Our lawyer has sent them a copyright violations letter and we plan to sue for punitive damages.”

Grace admitted that it’s not easy to fight piracy but to protect copyrights they have to take this seriously. “First, we have to ask them to remove the song. Then we ask for repreration.” The Guangzhou ISP that provides the service for the ringtone site said yesterday “We will wait for the lawyer’s letter first. We’ll notify the ringtone company.”

Jimmy has been working hard in China these years and have lots of fans. Online companies find it lucrative to private his songs. Recently, when the softdrink posters were still in the print shop they were stolen by the workers and sold illegally. Fans even took privated DVD copies of his My Lucky Star for him to sign.

BTW, It has been confirmed. Jimmy will race in the TianSi Lightweight Radical Challenge on 6/21/08 and 6/22/08 at Zhuhai. He got 1st and 2nd place in the 2 rounds of the same race back in March. Yeah. we'll see him on the winner's podium in 2 weeks spraying champagne. good luck jimmy, You are the best!