Spoofing P2P Networks as Marketing Plot

prostoalex writes "Salon's technology section talks about major music labels spoofing the peer-to-peer networks. The users of AudioGalaxy, Gnutella or KaZaa have probably seen a surge of fake MP3 files when conducting a search on a popular title. The MP3 looks legit, but contains a 20 second clip played over and over. Such promotional tracks were especially popular with newest releases, such as Eminem and No Doubt, as pointed out in the article. Who posted the fake tracks to the p2p networks? Could it be, as Salon suggests, a suburban mom, who does not agree with controversial lyrics, or would it be the label, trying to prevent piracy and promote the new album at the same time?"

Comments

Anyone click on the sybase ad?

[alta]

It's hilarious, click on the ad and you get a single line "[can't process this directive]" (Solaris/Netscape)

Go to the front page, the whole damn site is down.

The funny part was because they were advertising their cool, super duper, oracle beating unbreakable database. Ya think it was their webserver or database that caused the problem? ;)

Re:it's not the moms

[forkboy]

You meant drive SUVs right?

Re:Good on them

[Cpt_Kirks]

Hell, yeah! Get all that damn music and movies off the p2p networks so the full bandwidth can be utilized for a more noble purpose:

pr0n!