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| NamePros Regular Join Date: Aug 2002
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![]() | Hackers have fun with Madonna decoy LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters/Hollywood Reporter) -- Anyone who thinks they can control the Internet received an object lesson during the past week. It all started when Madonna literally lent her voice to a popular antipiracy technique. Warner Music Group had audio files purporting to be her new songs uploaded onto peer-to-peer file-sharing services. Anyone who downloaded the decoys, however, heard nothing but the pop star swearing at them. But since then, the pithy profanity has taken on a life of its own. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/the-break-room/14748-hackers-have-fun-with-madonna-decoy.html Some observers thought Madonna was smart to fight piracy with its own tools. Others perceived a thrown gauntlet -- hackers soon defaced Madonna's Web site with an equally profane retort along with several downloadable files of the then-unreleased songs. The defacement also carried a marriage proposal to Morgan Webb, an associate producer and on-air presenter at TechTV who had nothing to do with the prank. Read full story here: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne...eut/index.html
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