new Kazaa/file-sharing annoyance

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alright, this has happened with three songs i got off kazaa, namely, jay-z - la la la, david banner - fuck em, and crazy in love. what happens is the song plays for maybe thirty seconds and then WITHOUT WARNING turns to awful, digitalized noise - sounds like an aluminum can in the garbage disposal, but slowed down. fast forward through the track yields only more of the same, except SLOWLY MOVING BACKWARDS through the track. is this a new thing to discourage music pirating? has anyone else experience this?

― brains (cerybut), Saturday, 27 September 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. Lots. But not today, thankfully.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 27 September 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

havent experienced that, maybe you should try something besides kazaa, or better music...one could wonder why youre downloading jay-z when you can proably hear it every 15 minutes on 6 different radio stations in any major metropolitan area

― carmen (carmen), Sunday, 28 September 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

yes ive found that problem. there's also the one where they give you 20 seconds of song and then 5 megabytes of silent mp3. or there's the chorus looped over and over again....
you can get to know which ones will be duds though by the way they're named. on kazaa, beware of lower case lettering

― minna (minna), Sunday, 28 September 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

.. and the words "unknown album" appearing in the filename is usually bad news too, or a combination of file size, bitrate and length that common sense says is impossible.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 28 September 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks for the advice. i usually only use kazaa for more popular singles and stuff; i've found it's usually better than soulseek for chart rap etc.

― fds, Sunday, 28 September 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

The RIAA already threatened to start filling the Napsterclones with "faked" files. I think you got scammed, brains.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 29 September 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

...whereas the record companies should be putting out mp3s with the first 30 seconds of the song, and then five minutes of the hypnotoad noise

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 29 September 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi, i run a blog which attempts to track and display these kind of p2p files.
http://noneinc.com/RIAAEM/RIAAEM.html

if you can, could you e-mail me some of them? i'll add them to the list so everyone can enjoy. (if you get corrupt p2p files of any kind, i'd love to know about them)

There are several versions/waves of these "pissing in the pool" files. the first batch, the RIAA suppostedly took their songs and repeated parts of it to complete the desired file size. after the RIAA got bored of that suppostedly they highered a company called Overpeer who actually went and trademarked their dirty files, the one you received sounds like one of these Overpeer files.
PeterALopez
-part time music fan

― PeterALopez, Monday, 29 September 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

All Hail the Hyp...no...toad

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 29 September 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't force me to pull out the satanic hypnokitty.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 29 September 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

you know its funny
cause youre stealing shit and then complaining about it
id be happy that i got anything at all

― bite me, Sunday, 30 May 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd've thought RIAA stooges would have better grammar.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 30 May 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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