Loudeye To Stop Flooding File Sharing Networks With Fake Files

from the spoof-this dept

Mon, Dec 12th 2005 12:24am — Mike Masnick

Overpeer was one of the first firms to come around that would flood file sharing networks with bogus files to try to trip up downloaders. For all their efforts, they got bought out by Loudeye nearly two years ago. However, it turns out that there isn't really that much money to be made in pissing off lots of people, and so Loudeye has shut down the unit, saying it's losing money. Who knew that annoying as many people as possible wasn't a good business model?

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anon, 12 Dec 2005 @ 2:14am

Good Riddance!
And whatever crack smoking dipshit "visionary" came up with IndieSource over there at Loudeye(�), deserves a good __________.
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- Terry Goodin, 18 Apr 2006 @ 3:20pm
  
  Re: Good Riddance!
  Can you tell me what the problem is with IndieSource? I'm doing some research on Loudeye and am wondering about their services, particluarly with indepenedent artists.
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Anarchy_Creator, 12 Dec 2005 @ 4:06am

Ha
It's about damn time.
So wait a second... there's no money to be made in wasting your own bandwidth, saturating your upstream with bogus files to piss off P2P users?
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asshole, 27 Mar 2006 @ 4:50pm

lol...............that is funny
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