Strange Sound, Screeching Songs...et Cetera

[Nights]

Not sure if this would help but I noticed some things

More then 5 users have the song most of the time

And end file titles are the similar

And the bandwidth is always 1358



Maybe it's coming form another server?

If this has been brought up IGNOR IT!!
I stopped reading this thread at page 15

[soma]

Damn!!!...36 pages l8r and still NO solution....

[Adster]

and there never wil be a solution

get your new shit off IRC

btw I havnt found a f*cked up song in 4 months

[Celerystalksme]

no 36 pages later there are still people who do not listen...

[Adster]

no 36 pages later there are still people who do not listen...

ye very true

[Explosive]

You now, it takes much time to find answer in 36 pages... So everyone who reads this post for the first time will ask about solution...

[YoRu]

Yea like me ... and i just wasted my time

another fact which was maybe not mentioned yet:

I searched a file 2 weeks ago: i found no source
i tried it today and i found 280 sources all fucked up.....

looks really like someone is doing this "professional"

[Jayhawk]

Originally posted by Adster@20 October 2003 - 08:03

no 36 pages later there are still people who do not listen...

ye very true

i have yet to read 1 full page but see i dont use kazaa anymore so i dont have to worry about it

[BallyK]

Do you need yet another opinion?
Well, why not?
After being away all summer I got back online last week only to find a very nasty surprise, ie the topic of this discussion. I have read some (not all obviously) of the posts here and have done a bit of my own research and came up with this conclusion:

It is RIAA or associates/contractors; that is final.
A lot of theories have been put forward about how it is done but I have yet to see it explained how I see it.
It is very simple. They have numerous servers (not one IP range, not a specific bandwith but generally quite high) and on them they run bots programmed to search for .mp3 files that include the names of artists from a list. The bots then copy the file header (sorry I don't know the specific terminology) and pretend to share that file. When one of us poor souls comes along and tries to download that file the bot just sends a predetermined set of bytes that produce the screeching sound. The reason people have noticed faster downloads is because this repeated information is easily compressed and thus transmitted a lot faster.

The bad news is this system is so simple it will be hard to stop. Obviously the files need to be verified but that would mean some major alterations to Kazaa.
I wonder if we can hear the opinion of the authors of Kazza Lite on this issue?

[Celerystalksme]

I've read to much of this...and contributed to much aswell...