<![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:27:59 EDT Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:27:59 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php#c2449012 I find hilariousness in this email dated Sept. 4th:

"Keep in mind the attachment is from our legacy gnutella file distribution system (Ivan's original decoying system). The thing I find interesting is Kanye West's tracks were downloaded from us more frequently than 50 Cent tracks."

bedofnails

]]> 33:301768:c2449012 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:27:59 EDT <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php#c2448681 @Tenno: It's almost like when I requested a NIN song at a strip club and they played that damn 50Cent / NIN mashup. Jerks.

Are you a stripper? A female stripper? One who was born with a female body?
[drools]


Hyman Decent

]]> 33:301768:c2448681 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:03:33 EDT <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php#c2446169 This, once again, reminds me of my Limewire days when these amazing duets would appear in the searches - like Dolly Parton and Kate Bush - and they would always always always turn out to be Chantal Kreviazuk's "Leaving on a Jet Plane." Boo.

The Mozfather

]]> 33:301768:c2446169 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:23:50 EDT <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php#c2444995 I must be downloading from all the right places because I do it all the time, and never, not once, have I encountered fake files.

horkles

]]> 33:301768:c2444995 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:08:36 EDT <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php#c2444568 It's almost like when I requested a NIN song at a strip club and they played that damn 50Cent / NIN mashup. Jerks.

Seriously though, Media Defender is just being laughed at by all these sites, those emails are proliferating (hey mom, big words!) at an insane amount and it's literally everywhere.

Though to be fair, the hackers, most of them at least, have kept all damaging personal info off the tubes, which is nice of them, but the rest of the material is just getting slammed all over.

PR Moments.

Tenno

]]> 33:301768:c2444568 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:36:15 EDT <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php#c2444489 Isn't there a copyright violation with uploading and/or changing the file? Just because they're hired goons for the industry shouldn't necessarily give them the right to engage in these practices, does it? Releases signed? Etc, etc. If I wrote and recorded a tune and found somebody altered it without my permission ... just wonderin'.

okiedoke

]]> 33:301768:c2444489 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:29:43 EDT <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php#c2444087 i was a victim of that when they first started pushing fakes out there. i tried to download an album to see if it was any good. you know what i thought? "damn, this album sucks. i'm not buying this piece of crap." it wasn't till i heard it on a friend's stereo that i realized it was a fake loopy crappy version. all they accomplished was loosing a sale.

infinit Loop

]]> 33:301768:c2444087 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:56:47 EDT <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php#c2443625 Over the weekend, some enterprising hackers weaseled their way into the e-mail system of MediaDefender...

FWIW, the group claiming responsibility for finding-and-releasing these messages -- MediaDefender-Defenders -- claim a MD employee forwarded these messages to his GMail account. MD-D claim the account had an insecure password. How they knew to target this account they don't say. But they claim they actually got the messages from GMail, not directly from MD.

[www.theregister.co.uk]

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:301768:c2443625 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:23:18 EDT <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php#c2443301 They should have put more decoy copies of "Curtis" online, the reviews would have probably been better.

Aleb

]]> 33:301768:c2443301 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:57:56 EDT <![CDATA[A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/leak-of-the-week/a-look-inside-the-major-labels-creaky-whack+a+pirate-machine-301768.php#c2442789 Those guys are gooood. They stymied my attempts to swipe "To the Five Boroughs" so thoroughly that . . . aw, forget it.

Luke N Atmaguchi

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