Taken from MTV.com:
“If you’ve tried to download Linkin Park’s new
single, “Somewhere I Belong,” on peer-to-peer networks like KaZaA or
LimeWire lately, chances are you downloaded files that looked legit but sounded
like — well, something that rhymes with “legit.”
File traders are used to weeding through the chaff to get to the wheat, but over
the past year a new tactic, “spoofing,” has emerged in the fight
against file trading. Spoofing is the practice of spamming trading networks with
decoy files in an effort to frustrate traders, and, hopefully, drive them to
seek music from one of the industry’s legitimate downloading destinations.”
Read more on the story here
and if you want to hear Linkin Park’s new single without worrying about
downloading a bogus file, you can stream in legit here.
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