85% of Kazaa Music is Corrupt Now

[ShitManLovesShit]

Fuck me. It is now official. Somehow, more than 85% of mainstream Kazaa (and Kazaa Lite K++) music files are corrupted by some kind of static-frequency. There are lots of rumors abound about it being the music industry cloning accounts and inserting bullshit code into the music... I don't fucking know but this has to stop. There is no other popular P2P program out there anymore that is free and good. Now I can't download ANY (and yes, 97/100 past files I have downloaded have been corrupted) music. That's how I fucking know if I am going to buy the CD, is if I like what I download.

What the fuck?! Is anyone else experiencing my pain? If you are, what do we do god dammit?!

=Jon=

[Sqeezy]

yea. i had this problem on lots of music files.
its this ugly "KRTKRTKRT" and this annoying "weegweeeg"
i cant stand it anymore..

[Spike-J-Wolfwood]

I see it as the death rattle of the music industry. They know that they will have to change how they do business or suffer. You know they’re panicking when they sue a 12 year old and resort to randomly sabotaging mp3's. Bunch of fucks.

[Infinik]

Um... I just downloaded about 5 singles, and they all worked fine for me... Maybe you all just have rubbish connections? :P

[Noodleboy37]

I've noticed that it really depends on what your trying to get....ALOT of new music has that "computer noise" crap in it but if you look for older songs you don't seem to have as many issues!

[Slightly-Crazy-Dude]

Yeah man my mate downloads tunes all the time and he has no problemos. Hope you all get the songs you want though, i know what its like without a dailly dose of your fave band.

[cr0mZX]

All the music i download is ok, probably because noone knows it

[rangi]

Movies are sometimes child porn.. :S

[cr0mZX]

and music clips are sometimes bondage....

[Slightly-Crazy-Dude]

At 10/2/03 06:55 AM, rangi wrote: Movies are sometimes child porn.. :S

And you know this why ??????

[ShitManLovesShit]

At 10/2/03 05:56 AM, Noodleboy37 wrote: I've noticed that it really depends on what your trying to get....ALOT of new music has that "computer noise" crap in it but if you look for older songs you don't seem to have as many issues!

Yeah, man, that is pretty much the way it is. Any Top 100 song or anything that is mega-popular (god, even most of Rob Zombie's stuff) has the computer-fuckover-noise in it. I am trying to find anything mainstream that isn't scratchy. I found some Godsmack and one Nirvana song (Teen Spirit) but that is it so far. I'm really fucking pissed.

=Jon=

[Spike-J-Wolfwood]

The most horrible thing is when is looks like legit porn and it was kiddy shit. Totally kills your mood for like a week. Then you get paranoid that the FBI is looking over your shoulder..... Stupid fucking degenerates! Cant they keep that shit to themselves!?!?!

[BootlegJones]

At 10/2/03 05:09 AM, ShitManLovesShit wrote: (and yes, 97/100 past files I have downloaded have been corrupted) music.

That would be 97% of Kazaa music.

[poxpower]

Yeah, most mainstream bands, old and new, have this kind of shit on them.

Here's what you have to do:

- preview the files, it usually goes bad by the half of the song
- delete the ones you have already dled so you don't spread this
- look at the date on them. I don't know if its relevant, but at one time, I looked at the "year" part of the info, and all the crappy corupt ones had years like "1456" or "1694" or shit like that, while the real ones had a real year on them.
I've got no idea if that can be applied to the majority of the stuff, but who knows.

[ShitManLovesShit]

At 10/2/03 07:20 AM, BootlegJones wrote: That would be 97% of Kazaa music.

Right I was referring to an article I read online that 85% of popular files were infected. Which would be about 90% of the music I try to download.

=Jon=

[gfoxcook]

At 10/2/03 07:25 AM, Newpoxling wrote: - delete the ones you have already dled so you don't spread this

That's good advice for stopping this "problem" but I felt I should comment that it's better to not share ANY files anymore. The RIAA is cracking down on people ULing, not people DLing. So stop sharing files if you're going to go and DL files.

I realise that the end result of that is no one will be sharing, but oh well, it's not the end of the world. You can still share songs with your friends via AIM and things like that, after all. In any event, better to let other people get caught than to get caught yourself.

If if's not possible to NOT share files with kazaa, then nevermind. I only use gnutella clients, so that's what I'm speaking in regards to mostly.

[ShitManLovesShit]

Royht you are, but the great thing about P2P Networks is I get to hear music that none of my friends listen to. And I don't have the munny to be buying albums all will nilly and such. So for me Kazaa is a way to find the music I am interested in (by what artist, on what CD). Therefore, WITHOUT KAZAA, THE RECORD COMPANIES WOULD NOT BE MAKING MY SALE. That is my point.

=Jon=

[D-Rizzle]

Fucking music companies. I feel all your pain. God damnit, to burn a CD of music I have to download about 3 times as much as before. Something should be done, I hate these people transferring fucked up music on Kazaa. The thing is, a lot of people have the corrupted files, so the theory about false users could be true. I don't think people are going to keep corrupt files, unless they are deaf.

Someone should make another P2P program, like Napster. Someone should do it so that the files are scanned for corruptness. Damn music industry, they bought it upon themselves. CDs are too fucking expensive.

-Luke

[Marked4AdminReview]

At 10/2/03 08:37 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I only use gnutella clients, so that's what I'm speaking in regards to mostly.

I'd be interested to know which you use. To me, Limewire seems the best.
My personal fav out of all of the p2p's is winmx.

[shak3s]

At 10/2/03 05:09 AM, ShitManLovesShit wrote: Fuck me. It is now official. Somehow, more than 85% of mainstream Kazaa (and Kazaa Lite K++) music files are corrupted . . .

A big reason for this is that 98% of the users are corrupt. It used to be that a small quiet pristine blackmarket was tolerated. Now you openly complain that your pirating/sharing is not going as well as you would like. That open boldness is exactaly what prompts the people (riaa) that are losing (potential)income to do somthing about it.
Things will become more difficult to steal and people will find a workaround and the cycle continues through changes in technology.

yeah it sucks that I can't just download the music I want to hear, without stealing it. You can complain that these artists and the recording industry make enough money- they do,imo; they are entitled to maximize their profts and protect their losses.

Just because you want to be a theiving bastard and openly discuss piracy in a public forum like this, you should expect no less than a counter measure taken by the people that own that property. The same goes for software engineers, developers and programmers that want to protect their work.

[X8X]

I now that all of you guys now this, but this is just a reminder: When someone descovers that you have more than (I tink)1000 music files from KaZaA, you have to pay a lot of money!

[TFate]

At 10/2/03 10:26 AM, Soonasu wrote: I now that all of you guys now this, but this is just a reminder: When someone descovers that you have more than (I tink)1000 music files from KaZaA, you have to pay a lot of money!

That really sucks. That REALLY REALLY sucks.

I haven't d/led anything lately, but if it's true than that sucks, too. I wonder if it really is someone official of some jerk just trying to piss everyone off. Or maybe it's some jerk being paid by some official... and yes, you can stop sharing files on Kazaa. Go to options and look around... there'll be a little check mark box thingy that says, "Stop sharing... do not press this!" lol

[leeboy105]

WinMX is very reliable.

http://www.winmx.com/

[Magna]

Imesh anyone?

There are a few alternatives to Kazaa.

But actually since i reformatted 3 weeks ago, i haven't redownloaded Kazaa lite!

I've been going with filesharing for a full 3 weeks. I am soooo guilt free ;-)

[gfoxcook]

At 10/2/03 10:24 AM, asdfsdfg wrote:

At 10/2/03 08:37 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I only use gnutella clients, so that's what I'm speaking in regards to mostly.

I'd be interested to know which you use. To me, Limewire seems the best.
My personal fav out of all of the p2p's is winmx.

I tried BearShare first, settled on Limewire for quite some time, and finally moved to Gnucleus in the end.

At 10/2/03 10:26 AM, shak3s wrote: Just because you want to be a theiving bastard and openly discuss piracy in a public forum like this, you should expect no less than a counter measure taken by the people that own that property. The same goes for software engineers, developers and programmers that want to protect their work.

Did you or did you not read the whole post?

He claims (and I have no reason not to believe him) that the reason he DLs stuff is to sample it prior to buying. Now, that might not be technically legal even if he buys an album from EVERY FREAKIN' ARTIST he samples, but it is VERY true that record companies are actually stifling their OWN profits, and that of their artists (that they claim to care about... yeah right), by cracking down on file sharing. A lot of people do use illegal file sharing to replace their CD collection, but not everyone does it. If the record companies would make standardised, cheap, and easy to use methods for sampling songs online, then I guarantee you that people like the poster, and myself, and many people I know would stop using file sharing because we'd have a great alternative.

I used to sample a lot with file sharing, and I've spent at LEAST 100 dollars based solely upon music I've heard on the net from friends via AIM or from file sharing utilities.

To say that I hurt the record companies by BUYING MUSIC I HEARD ON THE NET is like saying that radio ruins CD stores because no one buys CDs anymore when they can listen to songs on the radio. Bullshit, in other words.

Nowadays, I mostly DL songs I already have (i.e. have paid for) via said utilties. I don't share music, and that's from long before this current spate of lawsuits started, anyway.

My computer sucks and a lot of the time I can't get a good 128 kbps rip of a mp3 off of one of my CDs, plus I can't find some, plus I'm lazy, etc. etc. But I'd love to see the legality challenged on DLing stuff you ALREADY OWN. That would be hilarious if RIAA sued me, or others like me, and found out they already owned the very CDs by the artists whose music was being DLed. Ahhh yes.

[I-Jaf]

iv got 2 trojans off kazaa on my comp now. internet explorer is about the only thing that still works. damn you kazaa

[OCP-Lock]

I know what you are talking about. It makes the most annoying sound in the world. I wish I would have listened to some of the songs before I downloaded them and burned a CD. I was blasting the music when I first heard that shit.

[MetaphorcE]

At 10/2/03 11:47 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I tried BearShare first, settled on Limewire for quite some time, and finally moved to Gnucleus in the end.

Well, I am downloading it now. If it sux I am blaming you.

[gfoxcook]

At 10/2/03 12:18 PM, MagicalMusical___ wrote:

At 10/2/03 11:47 AM, gfoxcook wrote: I tried BearShare first, settled on Limewire for quite some time, and finally moved to Gnucleus in the end.

Well, I am downloading it now. If it sux I am blaming you.

in some ways, it's not as good as limewire. I wish it remembered window positions and sizes, for one thing. Always have to constantly move search boxes around or resize 'em so I can see the transfers window at the same time.

It works perfectly well, though, but I wasn't exactly recommending it to you. I was using limewire for awhile, then they started putting spyware into it, and my girlfriend switched us over to a spywarefree version, but eventually I had a crash or something while using it, and it hasn't worked every since. Screwy. Hence the gnucleus DL.

[Foxkax]

At 10/2/03 10:26 AM, Soonasu wrote: I now that all of you guys now this, but this is just a reminder: When someone descovers that you have more than (I tink)1000 music files from KaZaA, you have to pay a lot of money!

Also if you do much downloads then delete you have to Pay more i think