November 13, 2002
Music industry swamps swap networks with phony files
Music industry swamps swap networks with phony files
Sources at three major labels admit they're deluging popular services like Morpheus, Kazaa and Grokster with thousands of decoy music files that look identical to a sought-after song, but are filled with long minutes of silence -- or 30-second loops of a song's chorus.
Posted by rshah at November 13, 2002 12:00 PM