After their initial horror subsided, though, the pair decided to take some control of the situation, and are now selling the private home video online to fans for $US5 a pop.
The Los Angeles-based band, who have released six albums over the course of their 12-year career, addressed the sex tape leak in a post on their Facebook page.
“Today, without our previous knowledge nor consent, a personal video was released,” they wrote.
“Due to a series of technological missteps and one morally abject person, a video that we made privately has been released to the public. We have commenced legal proceedings against the aforementioned person, but now that it could potentially circulate, we feel like it’s important for you to know what happened and why.
“We turned on a camera, became naked, and had sex. We assumed that we were the only people who would be privy to that video. I guess we were naive. Now you have the option to be privy to that video. For us, that’s a shame.
“We feel like art is an act of generosity. The art we make for the public is for that expressed purpose. And now we’re in an awkward situation where the art that we made for us and us alone is being viewed by anyone who has the inclination to hit play — a true and humiliating blurring of the public and private.”
The pair say that while their “tastes in the bedroom might seem uncommon to some, and possibly off-putting,” they asked that their fans “choose not to view a private act that was inadvertently made public.”
“We hope you understand that this is not a delicious scandal. This is an exploitation.”
In a follow-up Facebook post, the pair announced they would be trying a new tack to take control of the situation.
“Since this happened we’ve been researching sex tapes. It shouldn’t have come as any surprise that Pamela Anderson never saw a dime from the tape she filmed with Tommy Lee, and Paris Hilton lost a court battle with the man who leaked their private video. We’re not as savvy as the Kardashians, but something occurred to us this morning: we could try and distribute the video directly to you ourselves,” they wrote.
“This video is out there now. We can’t change that. But we can try to be ‘as YACHT as possible’ about it and take some kind of ownership over what has happened. So we’re asking you one thing: if you feel like you 100% have to see this tape, don’t stream it on some tube site, or download a torrent. Instead, we beg of you to download the video, Louis C.K.-style, directly from us.”
The band provided a link to a specially-created website where fans could pay $5 to view the stolen tape online.
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