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Can you remember the rumors that the big record labels would infiltrate the P2P networks by bringing in fake MP3s? Well, these rumors were really like some urban legend, because nobody ever experienced that by himself. Well, until today...


Yesterday I had to try out the new fat 2 mbit pipe at work, and downloaded a few Sportfreunde Stiller tracks via Poisoned (a fasttrack client for OSX). The downloads went smooth, but when I listened to them I found out that these MP3s were not the actual songs but only the first 20 or 30 seconds in a loop. That really sucks. Now I really have to buy their CD. But still, it's really interesting how easy it is to practically render P2P networks unusable.