Truth About Fake Files.
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: mesmeric
Earlier someone mentioned that a user with numbers at the end of their screen name is a bot putting out fake files (bs) but i've been doing some research, before you download a file a thing to do is search a users files. Now I know there are some legit users with fake files, but i noticed this odd pattern
I scanned 5 users files. They were identical, over 800 songs, maybe 100 movies. I was like wth? I figured it out these were bots, i downloaded one of the movies, a blank screen for 2 hours, i downloaded one the songs they were all scratched.
How can you tell if something your downloading is a fake?
Well I browsed the person's files and they had like 19 version's of the same songs. And the files loaded in the same order everytime, it had a list of a few movies like swat. Then it was followed by some artist the first one to come up was a band called cold. I sorted their files they had like 100 50 cent songs, like 10 of the same song, and each one was fake. The Riaa didn't do that good of a job hiding their bots. They don't have girlie names like riaabot or stevie20. they had simple names we would use. MadKilla203, and one was phucktheriaaubitz or something like that. They think their smart, i encourage you to not let fake files discourage you as well as a n00b. Keep sharing and remain confident. In God We Trust, In p2p we believe
This was on kazaa, so other programs that aren't on fast trak, you may not need these procautions, but kazaa still has the most users, even though i must admit it has decreased although there's sitll 6,000,000 are still being shared during the peak time of day (4-7 o'clock)
So remember a good idea is just to scan the files of the person you download from, or look for it to say, made by realjukebox or some other program
Posted by: wormless
yea but some ppl like me hide their files so u an d others cant c them, y dnt u get the newer version of k-lite?
the one with bad ip blocker?
Posted by: mesmeric
ill have to get that now, must be running a slightly older version.
mes
Posted by: james_bond_rulez
mmm interesting, so RIAA is playing dirty now aren't they?
i'd stick to the verified downloads and you wont have much of a problem
Posted by: Adster
as useal blaem the RIAA for everythig :sleeping :sleepin g:
Posted by: BiLLy_BloggZ
Originally posted by Adster@15 September 2003 - 03:13
as useal blaem the RIAA for everythig :sleeping :sleepin g:
its the RIAAs fault that im fat
Posted by: Adster
RIAA fault that Im a looser
Posted by: MetroStars
RIAA fault that Im a looser
that not true...
but i liked mesmeric Theory, a very intresting read ;)
Posted by: DenDen2004
i'd stick to the verified downloads and you wont have much of a problem
where do you get verified downloads?
Posted by: j4y3m
cold rock.....but most stuff i download of theres is faek.....this explains it :blink:
Posted by: Switeck
I bet I know what ip range they're using too...
Add this to KL++'s blocklist.txt file if it's not there already:
FAKE MUSIC FILES:38.118.0.0-38.119.255.255
Posted by: fr600
Thanks for the info. But first I'm gonna check it...
Posted by: matskiuk
where the blocklist file?
Posted by: Switeck
Originally posted by matskiuk@14 October 2003 - 11:53
where the blocklist file?
It's in a sub-folder of KL++'s main folder under program files folder on drive C:
Typically this:
C:\Program Files\Kazaa Lite K++\BannedIPs\BannedIpRanges.txt
double-click on that in windows explorer and it should load in wordpad or notepad
Add:
FAKE MUSIC FILES:38.118.0.0-38.119.255.255
to the top line or BEFORE all the blank spaces at the end.
Save, exit!
You'll need to restart KL++ with the RIAA ip blocker turned on for this to take effect!
Or you can just use the auto-update blocklist app for KL++. :P
Posted by: jfm
Huh!
Posted by: Adster
if thats the cse the RIAA are sharing fakes that menas 95% of the user on kazaa are from the RIAA ;)