Genius that I am*, I of course had this idea long ago: if I were a record company, concerned with piracy over P2P, why not just flood the networks with fakes? You pay a dozen college interns to spoof the networks, and soon the signal-to-noise ratio drops to the point where it's no longer worth using Kazaa etc.
Obviously, I should have patented the idea. Too bad researchers at the University of Tulsa have
beaten me to the punch.
Of course, any decent Internet piracy story has a
Simpsons angle, doesn't it?
Hale said he came up with the idea when watching an episode of "The Simpsons." In it, Mr. Burns is unable to pick a specific dog from a group of Dalmatians because all the dogs are identical."It was a serendipitous moment," Hale said.
*Not really.
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Old news. I’ve been ticked off at this ever since I tried to d/l the latest album from The Beautiful South so that I could evaluate whether I wanted to buy it or not. What I got was each track, the full time of each track, but only the first 30 seconds of the lyrics repeated (well mixed, I must say) until the length of the track was up.
Come to think of it, before that one, there was trying to get Meteora by Linkin Park and finding a bunch of promotional clips of the bandmembers talking about the album. Yeesh. The work you have to do to copy music from complete strangers so that you can evaluate an album before deciding to purchase it.
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