Bah

[kingandy]

Just found out that the remix of "Magic Carpet Ride" from the "Go" soundtrack is not in fact by Crystal Method, as my MP3 player informs me, but somebody called Philip Steir. I can only assume that it was mislabelled when I downloaded it. Why do people do that? Is it ignorance or malice? I have this vague notion that it may be in order to trick people into buying an album by an artist because they've heard something they liked that's apparently by that artist...

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[samharber.livejournal.com]

Its not just music files. I've tried to download Warcraft 3 several times, but its always been some NFL football game whenever I install it.

However... that is a deliberate ploy, renameing a file by what is essential a poorley known band by another is just stupidity.

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

Similar malicious cases to Sam's - The Matrix Reloaded was splashed over loads of P2P networks about a fortnight before it came out. However, it was in fact Elmo Saves Christmas.

Some bugger had even gone to the task of encoding it with different software / compression to get about a half dozen files of misleadingly similar size, so that unlike the Adobe Photoshop renamed as a DVD title, which is easy to spot, people (such as Carl at work)were downloading Elmo up to six times.