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Madonna's P2P Bombing

Posted Apr 14, 2003

People who try to download tracks off of the new Madonna album from peer-to-peer networks will likely get an MP3 full of silence, prefixed by this short personal message from Madonna (150Kb MP3). More information from Dotmusic. Thanks to Tpoh.org for the file.

Update: Using the MP3 I posted, several people have created remixes that use the Madonna sample heavily.

15 Comments (Add Yours)

Apr 14, 2003
2:31 PM  
Adam wrote:

Arg... I'm quite tired of Madonna... she is successful only because of those people who work on her album and the complex image she maintains. Like this.


Apr 14, 2003
6:31 PM  
triticale wrote:

The short personal message is great; I'll convert it to a .wav and make it the new error response on my system. I could care less about her music anyway. Wouldn't have bought it even if it were convenient to check it out as an MP3 first.


Apr 15, 2003
5:39 AM  
ABliss wrote:

As I read this entry I just finished downloading the new Madonna track and wondered if she or I was ripped off. It was her. Copyright seems silly to me.


Apr 15, 2003
5:51 AM  
Konstantinos wrote:

Also covered at Zeropaid.com.


Apr 15, 2003
12:29 PM  
Greg wrote:

Whatever you think of the copyright issue, you gotta give her credit for fighting back creatively.


Apr 17, 2003
9:41 AM  
R. Moose wrote:

[from my post @ BlogCritics]

Another problem with MadDonna's overdub, is that what was a legitimate stream @ MTV's The Leak had the overdub as well.

Hey MadDonna, What the fuck do I think I was doing? Listening to your new album as I was thinking of buying it...until you decided that I was doing something wrong! After the third track of being asked what I was doing, I stopped listening and decided I didn't need to purchase the album from someone that was insulting me!

BTW, MTV The Leak info was mailed to everyone that BOUGHT the American Life single MP3. So it wasn't like WB didn't know what was going on.


Apr 17, 2003
3:28 PM  
Anarchie wrote:

I will go out of my way not to buy this album now.


Apr 17, 2003
6:12 PM  
stacy wrote:

hmm.. i love madonna, i would eat her diarrehea with a spoon and enjoy every last chucky, runny bit.


Apr 20, 2003
6:03 PM  
Lee Azzarello wrote:

well, the first hit I downloaded off Gnutella not only has the song but it's a nice 192kbps rip! I wonder if madonna personally uploaded the mass of silent versions. She seems quite concerned about the virus of home taping...errr, digital piracy, or...mmm, what's it called these days?


Apr 23, 2003
12:01 AM  
ding wrote:

I just wasted half my day hunting Kazaa for a version of this "short personal message" and only managed to clutter my hard drive with legitimate Madonna mp3s. Was very disturbing. Then I found this web site : )


May 5, 2003
12:17 AM  
Mike wrote:

Wow, I bet she thought this was real clever. I found the "fake mp3 trick" mildly amusing the first time I saw it used, and a lot so the next 50 or so times. Simple fake tracks would have done as well as the rest of the record industry's futile attempt at stopping piracy but that wouldn't be pretentious and attention grabbing like everything else this woman ever does.


May 8, 2003
4:17 PM  
tyrone wrote:

Anybody who complains about getting a madonna mp3 full of silence, has a bigger problem, THEY LIKE MADONNA, ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Its ironic shes complaining about people ripping off her music, when all she does is rip off other peoples talent and puts her name on it.


May 31, 2003
2:08 PM  
Ricardo wrote:

Thanks for the Madonna "What the ..." mp3. I just spent a long time downloading and only could get the legal copies. Unlike many others who have left messages, I find Madonna incredibly talented.


Jun 11, 2006
6:20 AM  
Just Another Madman wrote:

Hey, great! I wanted this sample really bad,
nice of you to host it here. I suppose it
is legal to use, as the artist herself put
it into the public domain?


Mar 20, 2007
6:51 PM  
Ryso wrote:

I hate madonna. I am gonna write about this in the essay i am doing for internet law, and how much she sucks.


 

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