Not the real Slim Shady

[RDixon]

"Are the fake MP3s popping up on file-sharing networks part of the recording industry's war on piracy, or just the latest in music marketing?"

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...mp3/print.html

[goldie]

that worst case scenarios are closer to the truth then we'd all like to think.

[nanook]

yeah, all of this is a non-issue, really.
especially since, after all the bullshit about the Eminem Show.
his cd went on to sell the most copies ever in a one day tally.
none of this hurt sales what so ever!
but i can see them "using" p2p to their advantage for advertising, as the Barenaked Ladies did.
they must realize there is nothing they can do.
u shut one down and another pops up.
they might as well jump in and use it for all its worth.
cause we all know, "the patience" of a p2p user, eh?
even after 10 bogus files..............i WILL find the file i want to download.............muuuuuuuwwwwwwhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[assorted]

also searches peer-to-peer networks for clients' songs, then downloads multiple copies from a given user at a glacial pace, rendering him or her unreachable.

again; this is why it's important for a client to allow you to auto-kill downloads that fall below 2k/s.

[Scyth]

Originally posted by assorted
again; this is why it's important for a client to allow you to auto-kill downloads that fall below 2k/s.

...or not count them towards your occupied download slots.

[Stoepsel]

Originally posted by Scyth


...or not count them towards your occupied download slots.

Yeah, a more clever bandwidth/upload control functionality on p2p clients will render this type of attack useless:[list=a][*]limit on per-user upload slots (already implemented in most clients)[*]automatically create new upload slots if the defined maximum upload bandwidth is not used completely (eDonkey has this, no reason why other clients shouldn't adopt this)[*]more flexible queues, e.g. separate queues for diferent file types (movies, mp3s, ...)[/list=a]

Stoepsel