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Millions Delete ALL Music Files?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-does-this-mean dept.

Honig the Apothecary writes "CNN is reporting that millions of people have deleted all the music files from their computers in a story here. My question is how the hell would they know? Are they substituting "deleted" for the words "disabled sharing with other users"?"

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  1. Lies, damned lies, and dumb polls... by seanadams.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi, this is jim joebob from the NPD group. We're doing a little survey to find out how many households have thrown away their pot. Do you still have a stash over 1oz, or have you disposed of all your contraband since the current crackdown went into effect?

    Either way, please give me your name and address, and the pattywagon will arrive in 15 minutes.

    1. Re:Lies, damned lies, and dumb polls... by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny
      the pattywagon will arrive in 15 minutes.

      MMmmmmm... burgers.

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    2. Re:Lies, damned lies, and dumb polls... by The_K4 · · Score: 4, Funny

      And half and hour after then monitoring software is uninstalled, they can get all their digital music files back off of the iPod. :)

    3. Re:Lies, damned lies, and dumb polls... by Pedrito · · Score: 3, Funny

      Call me paranoid but I wonder if those 40,000 'volunteers' are even aware that they have agreed to install monitoring software on their computer and that someone is checking everything they do.

      I agreed to what??? No, you can't have my liver!

    4. Re:Lies, damned lies, and dumb polls... by ghost-hacked · · Score: 4, Funny

      Q:Whatever happened to the pursuit of happiness?
      A:Hallmark finaly caught it, broke its spirit, and put it on a greeting card.

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    5. Re:Lies, damned lies, and dumb polls... by Lectrik · · Score: 4, Funny
      In the near future, popular music will be made by robots, and the kids won't be able to tell the difference.


      And by 'near future' you mean the 1990's right?
      You'll never convince me the boy bands aren't sing-droids. And don't even get me started on the spice girls or brittany and her clones
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  2. That's the same number of people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    that downloaded the new britney cd. Coincidence?

  3. They're Right!! by MrCaseyB · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well Duh! Of course we are deleting all the music files from my computer. How else am I going to have enough disk space for all the pirated HD broadcasts I will be downloading?

  4. Ya, right. by Mullen · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're just like me, they burn them onto CDROM instead and then delete the files...TO MAKE ROOM FOR MORE PIRATED MUSIC! [Evil laugh...]

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  5. Delete, yeah thats what I did. by Coyote67 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thats right horribly evil RIAA lawyers, I deleted my mp3s, so please don't sue me. Its not like I just moved them out of the shared folder or anything. Wait....oh crap.

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  6. That's simple... by the_skywise · · Score: 5, Funny

    We asked 2 people if they had deleted all their files. 1 said yes, the other said no. We factored that in against the population of the US, # of computer users, # of estimated song downloaders, and then against a .5% factor of error...

    Voila 1.4 million people have deleted their music drives. That'll be 5 cents please.

  7. Obligatory Penny-Arcade Link by FrEaK7782 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ya, they deleted it all...

  8. I can't help it by jlechem · · Score: 3, Funny

    My PC went beep beep beep and suddenly all my mp3's were gone!

    *ducks*

    Threadkilling since 1992

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  9. Re:Correction by sharkey · · Score: 4, Funny
    CNN: The Least Trusted Name In News.

    Ahem

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  10. Re:I'd like to see... by IWorkForMorons · · Score: 3, Funny

    Suuuuuurrree now...I can just picture it:

    SurveyGuy: Yes, hello. I'm calling in regards to a survey we are conducting. We would like to know if you have deleted all the illegal music files from your computer since the recent RIAA legal proceedings started?

    HipHopFreak: Uh...YEAH! I deleted them all, because I really want to pay for all the music I listen too. Really...believe me. I don't have any more illegal music files. REALLY! You don't have to send the cops here...

    SurveyGuy: Sir, we're an independent survey company. We will not be involving the police.

    HipHopFreak: Uh huh, and that's what the guy who tried to buy my TV said...

  11. Re:Deleted or Burned? by G27+Radio · · Score: 4, Funny

    For people that actually leave their computers, burning music onto a CD can be handy ;)

  12. Ah, useless survey data by freeweed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, this reminds me of "surveys" we would take in high school.

    Half the kids (the 'good' ones) would never admit to having done drugs, or had sex, even if they had. They were worried that the school would tell their parents somehow, that it wasn't truly anonymous.

    The other half of us.. well let's just say that at 14 I was having sex at least twice a day, drinking probably 40 ounces of alcohol a night, and had done crack twice in the past week alone. Oh, and I was also a gay transvestite horse-buggerer (for the surveys that had write-on options).

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  13. Re:Don't forget... by Thud457 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I felt a great disturbance in the kazaa, it was like millions of files cried out at once and then were silent..."

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  14. My bad by Cyno · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sorry about all the confusion. I deleted millions of songs off my computer. I work for Time Warner, so I guess some of my coworkers might have noticed. Sorry about that.

  15. Harnessing the power of groupthink via propaganda by DwarfGoanna · · Score: 3, Funny
    In other news:

    Um...millions of hot cheerleaders have had sex with ME! They obviously had a good reason, and you would hate to upset the status quo, right? In fact, many cheerleaders that have refused to have sex with me have been sued by large faceless corporate conglomerates.



    (whoo-hoo!)

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  16. of course I deleted mine... by julez · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have 15GB to fill on my iPod and that frees up a heck of a lotta room on my hard drive for more games!

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  17. The world according to RIAA statistics by azaris · · Score: 3, Funny

    If 1.4 million deleted all their MP3s and we assume the average P2Pirate had 100 illegal MP3s with the well-known value of $2,500 per track, this means RIAA member companies just made a net profit of:

    1.4 * 10^6 * 100 * 2500 = 350 billion USD

  18. Of course, were reinstalling Windows by dnoyeb · · Score: 3, Funny

    This happens every 6 months as we all reinstall windows...

    On a less serious note, these stories are very important for helping us to understand the credability of the agancies that report them. ;)

  19. All of a sudden....... by blankmange · · Score: 3, Funny
    I deleted all the illegal things off of my PC and then all I saw was

    /C:

    what the hell is that????

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