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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Jul 29th at 3:08am 2005

Okay, There is something that happens all the time that I have been thinking about, and I can't, for the life of me, think of ANY reason as to WHY it happens. I figured maybe one of you other famous internet personalities would know.

Today I downloaded a file on KaZaA. It was the latest episode of Family Guy. I was downloading it because I missed it on TV. After I had wasted about 6 hours of download time and the file was done, I opened it and it was an episode of Southpark.

My question is this: why do people do that? Why do they name it Family Guy, When it's CLEARLY southpark. It's not like it's an accident, coz if you check for other files from that user he has LOTS of things disguised as something completely different. Is there any real reason that this happens, or is it a punk-ass way of wasting everyone's time, like a virus?

And what's with the blank music files or the ones that start screeching after 30 seconds?!?!?




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Posted by Hugh on Fri Jul 29th at 3:21am 2005

I can't tell you about the videos, but the music like that is sometimes from music industry peeps who put crap like that up so people will get annoyed and not download music from that band. Generally speaking. The same thing might be with the videos, but eh, I dunno.



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Posted by fishy on Fri Jul 29th at 3:24am 2005

it sounds like a liitle bit of 'HAHA, THE JOKES ON YOU', by some smartarse, mixed in with some 'FECK OFF AND BUY IT, YOU CHEEPSKATE' anti-piracy malarky.




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Posted by Nickelplate on Fri Jul 29th at 3:59am 2005

? quoting fishy
it sounds like a liitle bit of 'HAHA, THE JOKES ON YOU', by some smartarse, mixed in with some 'FECK OFF AND BUY IT, YOU CHEEPSKATE' anti-piracy malarky.

I figured the "disguised" videos and software was the "Jokes on you" stuff and the s**tty music files are RIAA arseholes




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Posted by French Toast on Fri Jul 29th at 4:09am 2005

Last I remember on Kazaa, every application you downloaded was NHL 2001.




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Posted by OtZman on Fri Jul 29th at 4:30am 2005

Perhaps they want to share thing without others downloading it.

If I were you I'd rather download such things from torrent sites.



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Fri Jul 29th at 5:09am 2005

Sometimes it's lazy file labeling, other times it's because certain words trigger warning flags (Metallica was traded as Metalliska for a while when they were fighting Napster), other times it is indeed a tactic meant to piss people off. Basically, it's a price you're going to have to pay if you use a mainstream peer-to-peer network at this point in time.

Frankly, I'd be scared to death to show my face on KaZaA at this point. The industries been a little tepid in lawsuits lately - I think we're in a calm before a storm. And make no mistake, KaZaA will be the prime target.





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Posted by French Toast on Fri Jul 29th at 5:41am 2005

I'm a fan of Limewire, fast transfers, no corrupted files, good stuff <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">




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Posted by rival on Fri Jul 29th at 5:45am 2005

i downloaded what i thought was a full length film off limewire... turned out to be some porteguese porno flick.

i have gotten alot of songs and some good movies off limewire though.

whoops did i just say that? i paid for them of course....




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Posted by Crono on Fri Jul 29th at 6:16am 2005

Easy: The majority of people online are assholes.

Or, they're suffering the same question you are and are too kind to stop sharing their files.

Or maybe they're just assholes?


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Posted by rival on Fri Jul 29th at 6:18am 2005

i think that a lot of people dont know they are sharing their files. i didnt figure it out til like six months after i got limewire. before that i was like 'where the f**k did all my bandwidth go?'


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Posted by DrGlass on Fri Jul 29th at 6:30am 2005

I figure people just really like one thing, and they want to make some kind of mark on the world so they share, south park in this case, under diffrent names so no matter what people download it will be south park.






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Posted by Myrk- on Fri Jul 29th at 11:22am 2005

Ok in the world of downloading there are bastards then deleters. Deleters come in 2 forms- personal because they feel its morally wrong, and company hired. They go around deleting 1 part of a rar file so you spend a week downloading 4gb's of a DVD then find its missing 1 part. The bastards also come as company hired and personal. Its annoying because it spreads quickly :-/

On the note of family guy and non authentic downloads- Family Guy movie is coming out soon....




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Posted by BlisTer on Fri Jul 29th at 2:01pm 2005

? quoting DrGlass
I figure people just really like one thing, and they want to make some kind of mark on the world so they share, south park in this case, under diffrent names so no matter what people download it will be south park.


i think this is the case most of the time.




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Posted by French Toast on Fri Jul 29th at 2:29pm 2005

? quote:
Family Guy movie is coming out soon....


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Posted by Myrk- on Fri Jul 29th at 4:58pm 2005

The movie? The one which isn't out yet? "Stewie - The true story"

You pirate!

/whilst me points, a load of fake DVD's fall out of my clothes...




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Posted by mazemaster on Fri Jul 29th at 9:33pm 2005

Its all about bittorrent... Get the Azureus client and check out the pirate bay. If you are behind a harwdare firewall, port-forward ports 6801 - to around 6999 (the more ports you open the more connections you can make). If you don't do the port-forwarding/virtual server, your downloads will be incredibly slow. Otherwise I've found BT to be blazingly fast.


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Posted by Crono on Fri Jul 29th at 11:00pm 2005

I use G3 torrent. I've heard it interferes with IE though ... no sweat off my sack.
It also allows you to mask yourself as using other clients. Since some people are douches and only let people using Azureus, or some other client, download their stuff.


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Posted by Hugh on Fri Jul 29th at 11:19pm 2005

SoulSeek since 99% of what I get is music.



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