"fake" eminem songs

[rockr2003]

any eminem fans out there have any trouble getting songs that aren't screwed up in some way or cut short. is this the RIAA's way of discouraging file sharing or am i just paranoid? Quite a few descriptions for a certain eminem song claimed in the description that they were the real deal so please download and share and get rid of the fakes. My thinking is that these are the fakes so i stayed away from those.Also, the file size was way too small for the 320 quality. also several of them had exactly the same size file regardless of length, thought that was odd. oh well, enough of that, just wanted opinons on this.

[Smegma]

It's not the RIAA (they just sue people) it's the record labels. They hire a company called Overpeer to flood the networks with these bogus files. See the topic in the Zeropaid News today.

[2001team]

They do it on the popular networks where most of the stupid people dwell...which is KaZaA. They do it to discourage those stupid teenagers to not even try and to go out to the record store and buy the CD and that it's not the worth the time finding the accurate songs. As you can tell though, this doesn't work very well, even though 98% of KaZaA is idiots, the rest use KaZaA Lite / K++!:tilted

[AbercrombieDave]

the solution is IRC (internet relay chat). go to something like #x in irc.p2pchat.net or another mp3 trading channel. the good thing about this is that you can look up a user who is sharing a file to see if their network connection is suspicious (aka, 11938943-usa.RIAA.org vs sd.sd.cox.net). that means that you can skip the fake onces without sampling :). the bad? if you can do that to people, they can do it to u to. and if its the RIAA, well ur screwed. so its up to u....facing horibble files w/the reduced chance of getting caught or getting the good files all the time and risk getting set up by the RIAA.