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Old 08-02-03, 09:32 PM   #2
theknife
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you've been "spoofed"...files that appear to be what you are looking for, but are actually 30 second loops of the song or the song with some kind of interference or some other variation of a mutilated version of the song.

yeah, it's been covered here... the RIAA hires companies to flood the p2p networks with bad versions of new releases in the hopes that you will give up and go buy the cd.

just hang in there and keep looking...take note of the file names of the bad versions (for example - did they use all caps in the title, do they make it a point to say "Full" or "Complete"etc.) and you can begin to pick up patterns in your search results, so you know which ones to avoid.

one thing you can pretty much count on: sooner or later, the good versions will appear...and when they do, the whole spoof effort goes up in smoke
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