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Pirates Fight Back

Don   on 20 April 2003 - 07:33 · 50 comments & 8026 views

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Recently several bogus mp3 files meant to resemble the file attributes of songs from Madonna's new album "American Life" were flooded onto Peer2Peer networks for music pirates to download. When Madonna's fans went to listen to her new songs instead of enjoying her music they heard the message "What the f*ck do you think you are doing?".

This was an attempt by Madonna's managment to slow down the spread of her album online, forcing fans to either buy it, or do without listening to her music, hoping to increase sales on the album.

Unfortunately for Madonna and her managment, thanks to an unknown hacker, Madonna fans could visit her website to download her full album and remixes and no longer needed to worry about downloading bogus mp3 files. While visiting the site fans could see the hackers message to Madonna that stated: "This is what the f*ck I think I'm doing..."

View: Madonna.com
Screenshot: >> Madonna.com Defaced <<
News source: DataKill

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#1 vetmalebolgia on 20 Apr 2003 - 08:25
This made my day
#2 vetsmek on 20 Apr 2003 - 10:54
stupid person try to out smart pirates, tut tut tut her site is anoying neway the toolbar is offscreen, stupid biatch
#3 Neobond on 20 Apr 2003 - 11:09
Personally I don't blame her for making a stand. Millions of Internet users can so why shouldn't she be able too? If shes right or wrong is definetely not as important as a few million internet users who admit to stealing music via the Internet. People who admit to stealing her music are affecting her source of income. Its the same as people who openly admit to blocking ads here on Neowin, you are affecting Neowins source of income and somehow expect us to be free at the same time. Theft is not the way to tell music companies their products are too expensive, it never has been the way and never will be. Civil suits determine that and I dont see any top level civil suits arguing CD prices here.

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