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| Napster Goes Porn, Adonnam Will Survive, 2001 |
| In Mid 2001 I wrote the above sentence for a project for the first Tirana
Biennale. With that sentence I meant that the end of the Napster's era was
coming, while the file sharing would have been still on. "Napster goes
porn" referred to the fact that Napster was about to be shutdown, while
at the same time some porn websites were advertising themselves as the "Napster
of Porn". At that time, music companies forced the napster server's
maintainer to filter all the downloads, stopping those containing copyrighted
material but some guys invented a very smart way to bypass the guard software
that was supposed to ban any request for copyrighted material. Instead of
listing their songs in a standard way using the rock stars real names (madonna),
they took out the last letter of each name and put it at the beginning so
that madonna was listed as adonnam. In this way they were able to bypass
the filters for a while . So saying "Adonnam Will Survive" was a way to anticipate what it really happened. File sharing is still on. Then a very curios fact happened some years later. It was spring 2003
and Madonna injected in P2P networks a fake song containing her voice
reading the sentence: ""What the fuck do you think you're doing?"
(in reaction to the fact that many people were downloading and sharing
her songs for free) (you can listen to it below). After a while, on 2003-04-19, Below some more info from Curlio.com 2003-04-19 12:03:50 Madonna.com The official madonna site has been hacked by some hackers today. This
is most likely a response of a hacker to Madonna's try to beat pirates
and them getting the wrong mp3's instead. The hacker put 5 songs of madonna
on the site which people would be able to download if they would visit
the site, and as long as the site hasn't been |
| Listen to Madonna's Voice (MP3- 50Kb) |
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