[thechat] Music industry swamps swap networks with phony files

Glenn Turner gturner at ync.net
Fri Jun 28 16:25:00 CDT 2002


At 12:37 AM 6/29/2002 +0530, you wrote:
>http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560365.htm
>
><quote>
>Major record labels have launched an aggressive new guerrilla assault on
>the underground music networks, flooding online swapping services with
>bogus copies of popular songs.
></quote>

Salon had an article about this a few weeks ago
[http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/10/eminem_mp3/index.html] concerning
all the spoofs of eminem tracks that were suddenly appearing.

Quite frankly, I'm surprised they didn't start doing this sooner ...

-g.

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