None of this is even credible, I couldn't find any of these interviews online, and I looked everywhere for the band MP started called "5" and it doesn't even exist... Way to make this all up.
Yeah we get it, Build Me Up, Break Me Down sounds a little bit like Surrounded, that doesn't mean the whole entire album is a rip-off of Images & Words...
Let DT do whatever they want, it's their lives not yours.