How it could be???, Having an album 1 month before it's release!!! Options

[GrimReaper]

I know I'm way off topic, but this question almost haunted me. How could we have an album, via internet, 1 month+ before it's release date??? There is a spy, close to the record label, that published the album like this? 1 week before it's release, I could understand, a cheating local music store employee who puts new albums before the official release, but as much as over a month, I simply don't get it

Yes, I download music on the internet, but I don't share anything, and when I like the album, I purchase it

[LuDaChRiS]

finished or near-finished albums pass so much between so many people before its release date that they are bound to get leaked.

at least, thats how i understand it.