As you may have well noticed, P2P networks like KaZaa, e-Donkey and even gnutella have been flooded with "spoofed" .mp3s. Files that have had the greater portion of the song removed, and then had that portion replaced with a huge, fuckoff sample of clipped, random noise. The other method is just to loop the first verse endlessly.

I tossed up a page about it on my crap website, and it also goes into the now-infamous "spoofed" Madonna .mp3s from her "American Life" CD that were nothing more than Madonna getting all nasty on her fans.

Can you get the .wav file there?

Boom, baby! Oh, yeah!

Is the RIAA behind this shit?

Does the Pope wear a funny hat?

Discuss.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

ive always thought it would be funny if that thing the pope wears is the shape of his real head, hed never be able to do headstands, and all the other kids in his class would laugh at him because he cant to headstands

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I bought the album on the strength of that track. I'm disappointed.

Hey, the RIAA folks get bored waiting for thier cartel to collapse from its inability to adapt to changing circumstances. Watching thier goon squad of lawers extort teenagers out of thier college funds keeps them entertained for a while, but it only goes so far.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

You know, I've never run across a spoffed mp3. Mislabeled yes, but never spoofed. and i dl alot.

maybe its because now i don't go after popular music, and mostly just obscure stuff(which is often better :P).

I am the one putting out all the spoofed files. My reasons are my own.

Thank you and good day.

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Vote Jeb Bush 2008

I put up a file that was labeled TehLatestLIMPBIZKITThittsong.mp3, but it was really just audio footage of me taking a rather nasty crappe.

Nobody knew the difference.

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I has a flavor!

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You know, I've never run across a spoffed mp3. Mislabeled yes, but never spoofed. and i dl alot.

maybe its because now i don't go after popular music, and mostly just obscure stuff(which is often better :P).

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once i downloaded a file labeled Weezer - Maladroit(whole album ALBW).mp3 and it wasn't the whole album - it was the whole album and other unrealeased songs in a random order. I had to listen to each and cut the selections one by one. Pain in the rear.

Just out of interest, how many of the people here who download music then go out and and buy it on CD if they like it?

Every single album I bought was for this reason. It's not often i have the cash, but when i do i use it.

k_v_k: I usually do. Just because if I like the music enough, I want to support the band (even though they only get, what, a dollar per CD sold?)

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Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.

wait, you can buy cds?

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I download SONGS that I like. If enough of a band's songs are kick-ass, I'll buy the goddamn CD. The record industry doesn't seem to understand that by eliminating file-sharing, all they are doing is making it harder for people to bootleg shit. Then, instead of people like me downloading a couple of songs and then buying the album, I am going to scour my network of friends to find someone with the album and fucking burn me a CD. Or just download the songs onto my computer. Bootleggery will always be here, and the RIAA is a bunch of fucking idiots for not (for ONCE) jumping on the bandwagon. They had to embrace 8-tracks, records, tapes, and finally CDs, but they could not embrace this. Their loss, they suck, fuck them, who cares, go die, eat shit in hell, etc.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

When I download, I download whole albums to get a real sample of the artist. A song is meaningless - almost every artist has put out a song that was better or sounded different from everything else they did. I get the album, listen, if i like i get another, then if i like very much i procede to download the artists entire discography. People who download one song should listen to the radio.

And that, may man, is where you and I are 180 out of sync.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

*Raises Hand*

You think I ever buy an album if I can't get a good honest sample of what's on it? And don't even pretend that the radio can give you a good honest sample of jack.

You don't need to download music from local bands who you can see play live, but anything else? Buying music blind is just nuts, and downloading MP3s has always been the easiest way to get a meaningful feel of what a band's music is all about.

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You know, I've never run across a spoffed mp3. Mislabeled yes, but never spoofed. and i dl alot.

maybe its because now i don't go after popular music, and mostly just obscure stuff(which is often better :P).

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And that, may man, is where you and I are 180 out of sync.

Mmmm, I think that he's right when it comes to whether or not you are talking about the worth of an album, which is what is on the sales rack here, not individual songs. There's nothing meaningless about individual songs, but when you don't have a lot of money, it can be very hard to justify paying 12 - 22 dollars just for one song, when the rest of the package makes you nauseous.

That's my whole point. Blowing 11.99 for one hit and a CD of p0o is ridiculous. However, that p0o might be somebody else's caviar. So, while not "meaningless" artistically, meaningless as far a ref for the purchase of a whole CD? It's unwise. It's ok to just want the hit single, is my point. You shouldn't have to invest yourself into a band's whole ovuere because they made one hit.

When the record manufacturing biz decides to start selling singles again and using the web as a primary distro point, they can stop beating people with their buggy whips to hork up two days worth of grocery money for 11 tracks of Madonna's "artisic vision" and one hit song. In the obvious business model that would emerge, P2P could then become one of their main revenue streams.

Don't hold your hand on yer ass waiting, tho.

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

I think they still sell singles...I might be wrong, though.

I also don't think that they should charge you for these things (They do do that, you know). I think they should just make a limit to the number of songs you can have. Then if you want more, you have to pay a little money. It probably takes too long to get just one song if you have to pay and all. So, that way if you wanted the whole cd you could 1 Go out and buy it, or 2 buy it maybe for a slightly higher price on the net'.

Then again, major stores that rely on selling cds pretty much (like Media Play) might go out of buisness. Then it's chaos...

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...and pain joined his urge to percieve...

and by following those simple steps, MTV will love you!

btw this proves that the dead kennedys were the most intelligent group of dudes ever because the B side of their 'frankenchrist' record theres a disclaimer that says you can do anything you want with the B side. it proves the point that jello biafra travels time to when downloading music is illegal.....be excellent to each other

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xx( o Y o. )xx

i think i was misunderstood all around...

I was saying if you're going to understand a band or its dynamics you cant judge them based soley on one song, be it good or bad. A song is meanigful be it awsome, yes. However, a legend does not it make ( I'm Too Sexy - Right Said Fred[thxs gabe])

No, you were not misunderstood. I'm saying that I don't much give a dead rat's foofoo about a band's "whole dynamic" because if they are gonna rise up past the horseshit to the point where they have a release on a major label with lots of money being thrown at it, that whole dynamic will become self-evident. If you can't tell pre-fab from artistry, yeah... I guess you have to slog through the whole mess sometimes to find out.
The band's "whole dynamic" generally tends to hit me in the face like a wet fish pretty much as soon as their product is released and getting played.

Often, though, I am very pleasantly surprised. If a band really grabs my ear and their label is selling them as blah blah blah... and I know that aint what they're about, that's always nice. My immediate instinct is to call them and say "Get out of your contract. NOW"

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.

Tool fucking rocks.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

"tool" hmm hm hmheh hm he he heh hm mmhhh

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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.