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Old 08-02-03, 10:20 PM   #4
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dunno if they spoof movies, too, but it would not surprise me if they did.

i didn't mean the bad ones necessarily have all caps...what i meant was that since the bad ones are all put there by the same "user", there is often a pattern to the way the file name of the spoofed version appears. i noticed this while searching for Peter Gabriel's latest last summer, just before it was released in September. the file names of the spoofed songs were worded in a similar way...the fake versions all said FULL or COMPLETE in the title, so i learned to not even bother with those.

when searching for a song just released or prior to release, i found that, if i got 20 hits on a search for a song and one of the file names was worded or appeared a little different than the others, then that one was probably a good one, since the spoofed versions were far more likely to appear multiple times in a search.

of course, as time passes after release, the good versions begin to appear far more than the bad ones, since users dump the bad ones and keep the goods one out there.
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