SO yeah, BULLSHIT.

THis group is just a couple of fucking retards trying to look oh so cool…

use your fucking brains you cocksuckers.

Which raises another question…
Are modified mp3 files (even if the bitrate etc) are modified…are they illegal – once they have been modified?

Think about it.[/quote]

my thoughts EXACTLY, man.

someone, somewhere would notice it. i personally use torrents for “trial” versions of the stuff i DL. if i like it, i usually end up buying it, or an add-on to it or something to that effect. if it is music that i enjoy, like Flogging Molly’s new album “Float” that doesnt come out until March 3rd… i will end up buying it when the physical releases is out.

this seriously does sound like a ploy by the RIAA.

Clever – but these wannabes did nothing more than issue a “manifesto” -

Assholes, actually.

Rise against’s newest album was different to the leaked version. Leaked version was unmastered and contained some diffferent song names.

prayer for the refugee was called diaspora i think

“i think all the haters are missing the point.Even though this may be a hoax for attention the mear fact that it is now possible gives new light to ongoing cases.states burden now. i think its PERFECT!”

It’s now possible to post BS claims on the internet? That’s new is it?

“i think all the haters are missing the point.Even though this may be a hoax for attention the mear fact that it is now possible gives new light to ongoing cases.states burden now. i think its PERFECT!”

It’s now possible to post BS claims on the internet ? That’s new is it ?

Well, no, because the whole “TOTC” is fake. I seriously can say that I have never come across a more pathetic fake than this. That’s just some guy writing a nonsensical blog entry in a miserable attempt at internet “fame”. He’s probably looking to be on Wikipedia, or some shit.

It’s sadly pathetic that TF had to bring this up.

It’s bullshit, unless you count 96k-128k fakes on Demonoid as signifigant. At most what they achieved was wasted bandwidth and an annoyance to a few downloaders.

Congrats, you caused more useless load to the infastructure of the internet, you’re all heroes. DIAF.

Er… no…. they didn’t.
There’s only 1 person who’s been punked by this BS and it’s you enigmax.

The argument these people are making about not knowing what you are getting is like saying that Wikipedia is unreliable because anybody can edit it. While it may be true in specific cases, given enough users the system self-corrects while providing means for the casual observer to check the details.

trolling, i call that…

TOTC succeeds at big upping itself. That’s all.

They don’t need proof to make their point valid. In their own words:

“We set out to make that specific bewildering, annoyance a possibility.
We guessed that if this could become a widespread phenomenon it would really highlight one of the biggest flaws with the “illegal downloading” method of obtaining music. i.e You Do Not Know That Someone Hasn’t Fucked With Your Favorite Band’s Album…..All we set out to do here is jump-start a conversation.”

They have done just that. On this page alone I count 86 comments thus far discussing the validity/profundity or lack thereof of their “project”. Some comments even go so far as to suggest solutions to these “holes” in the “system” in question, while others declare their faith in this “system” despite TOTC’s claims otherwise.

This is in fact a debate, and you are all engaged in it, wether or not the TOTC’s claims are true.

“In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. ,Sol LeWitt, “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art”, Artforum, June 1967.”

VAnd they all sound the same (albeit different quality, i went from 128 to 256 to FLAC)

I meant actual links please :)

You do realise that its not jsut one copy on the internet as well.

morons.

these people are only making subtle changes to the files. too subtle for anyone to hear. thats why you all think that your files are still authentic. i bet the files cant be distinguished from the originals.

this was merely a study for them. they put their stuff out and wanted to see if anyone noticed. noone did. they win. haha.

quit bitching and complaining cause you guys got had. we all did. bravo TOTC.[/quote]

you seem to be missing that people understand that.

everyone is saying its easy to spot transcodes (they were really strict about them on oink) and this would have had to be one, so even if you couldnt tell the difference it would still be pulled.

Its bs, hence why theres no evidence of any of their 3 years work, i mean they could post the link to one.

And jsut because they wrote the article pseudo-intelligently does not mean its a study.

these people are only making subtle changes to the files. too subtle for anyone to hear. thats why you all think that your files are still authentic. i bet the files cant be distinguished from the originals.

this was merely a study for them. they put their stuff out and wanted to see if anyone noticed. noone did. they win. haha.

quit bitching and complaining cause you guys got had. we all did. bravo TOTC.

(*if they were real.)

Fuck that and fuck these MAFIAA attention whores.

If this was true lets bring it down into perspective:

If they put it on pirate bay noone would download it because a more heavily seeded torrent of equal or higher quality would already be there.

If they put it on oink after the original, im pretty sure they would have called bullshit.

Limewire lol. Limewire is full of crap, including a dodgy bill clinton impersonation advertising a pyramind scheme. I have once or twice downloaded a file which has been tampered with on limewire but it was in no way subtle.

And double lol at them saying theyve put zipped folders on yousendit and the other one. Noone in their right mind downloads zip files which say they are something on that, unless they got it from a links site.

And their attempt at sounding intellectual is pretty laughable there’s one or two parts where their grammar is appaling.

Also triple lol at all the people replying trying to match their attempt at being intellectual ‘ah ha what a clever idea which really perpetuates societies reliance on the honesty or a community over a multi million dollar corporation due to the negative connotations perpetuated by said corporations’.

Blatant fake

Also as many above stated, just because people rip there albums following guides and standards in order to share them on private trackers that doesn’t mean something like this would go UNNOTICED because we aren’t living in the stone age, and we are fucking good at what we do.

Those who “steal” and “share”, we, don’t just “give and take”, we want the ACTUAL stuff so we have found ways to know if it’s the real stuff or not, and these jokers like TOTC or RIAA and so, well they can try and try, the only outcome will be WE finding a way to make sure what we share and take and do what the fuck we please to do with in more artificial ways, so thank you TorrentFreak for this bullshit peace of crap, the result of this will be something new implanted for checking checksums and logs and so on and so on, in the end we keep improving and involving to something better and those who don’t like it will understand they can’t solve the issue, so they better start to think to rebuild this industry and adjust it to what is THE WORLD as it’s, can’t keep living in the past, everything will get more and more based on the rules technology, which mean adjust and involve or evaporate retarded-fuck-bags.