Leadfingers said:
"There have been threads on this very topic ! People finding an entire CD posted by a 'fan' as a free download , regardless of the wishes of the artist ! Though the sites DO remove them if any one objects!"

Increasingly they don't remove them even in the face of multiple objections. The worst offender is the music blog Time Has Told Me. It, bizarrely, posts up musicians' objections fir everyone to read, without doing the musicians the courtesy of removing the albums. Reading the comments on that particular blog is a thoroughly depressing and alienating experience. (Listeners basically insulting the artists whose music they're enjoying, for free, for daring to suggest they're being done anything less than a big favour!)