I'm stumped

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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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

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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One day you'll know what you're talking about, I can hardly imagine

Maps! - Audio blog!

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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i eat paint

fishy said:
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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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

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

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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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

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.

I'm a fan of Limewire, fast transfers, no corrupted files, good stuff :smile:

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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Bullet Control: $5000 for a bullet.
"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

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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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

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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Bullet Control: $5000 for a bullet.
"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

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.

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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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

DrGlass said:
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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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

Family Guy movie is coming out soon....

I have it on DVD :biggrin:

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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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

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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http://maze5.net

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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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

SoulSeek since 99% of what I get is music.

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One day you'll know what you're talking about, I can hardly imagine

Maps! - Audio blog!