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Posted by DB_Story on 09/29/89 11:26
This might be the Macrovision Hawkeye system (see
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=897).
If they are protecting a hot group (Green Day certainly qualifies), it would
be possible to put out garbage files with the same hash as a genuine hit by
hacking the WinMX client. Then you'll multisource the download and add
garbage into your file. That would cause what you're describing.
WinMX may need a smarter client.
"Psyko Niko" <nico.bagnati@NOSPAMmagic.fr> wrote in message
news:432074fd$0$4905$626a14ce@news.free.fr...
> I tried to download some music today ( for that matters, a song by Green
> Day ), and I really think some of you could be interested by that.
>
> First step, the search.
> As for any commercial song, I got a lot of hits. Many were obvious fakes,
> like the same user sharing a dozen copies of the same song ... so I
filtered
> the search with "-my"
> I finally got a hit with a 56K user with no queue, and started to DL.
>
> Next step is the new thing ( at least new to me ).
> I listened to the first bits, was a good file and all.
> Point is, the AFS was set to 10m ( default setting for me ), and some
after
> the start of the DL, WinMX found a dozen of sources, all of them withy no
> queue and high speed ...
> Before I could even react, some of the DL started, others got a files
> mismatch ( with both 002 and 004 errors ) ...
> And the file got corrupted, couldn't listen to the part I downloaded from
> this point, and couldn't resume the DL from the good source even after
> trimming 10K up to almost nothing.
>
> Any comment or explanation bout this new kind of pollution ?
> Or have I missed the news because of the holydays ?
>
> --
> Psyko Niko
>
>
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