My thoughts on a solution atm run to approaching artists for pre-releases/different versions of songs to the ones produced by their company machine AND unreleased, unsigned, unknown, unheard of artists share a free public ul/dl ftp network for homemade mp3's only, run along t he same lines as unixp...

I think I undestand enough about the fakefiles now to see they are formidable. There isnt anything ordinary you can do to them, They are part of the corporate machine that is intent on continued profiteering from music. With enough bandwidth we could blow their japanese honeypot network servers the ...

One of the patches bundled with windows xp service pack 2 limits the amount of allowable concurrent listening connections to 10. All previous versions of windows including xp original and xp sp1 are unaffected and have no limit. The thinking behind this microsoft patch is to "limit your suscept...

Thankyou Quicksilver, I read back through your posts in this thread and see that you know a great deal about fakefiles :) . I don't expect to be able to keep up with the knowledge but wish to stay informed and help in anyway I can to find a solution. I have alot of time for problems of this nature a...

:idea: I've been watching fakefiles again, I want to understand how they work. Seems like there is at least one identical hashlink in nearly every file group mixed in with genuine files So even having one of these files in your transfer window set to find sources and auto enter queue is poison. When...

Thankyou for your welcome, me here, this is a good site I've been reading for a few weeks and have learned good things from it. I think I am not very good at explaining and there is still a a part of my previous post worrying me. Collapse the duplicate result group you select as fake looking and pre...

Whilst investigating fake files on WinMX I came across the following phenomenon and don't know enough to know what to do with it . I hope it helps in your program developement. Search for LifeHouse - You and Me with "Groups of Duplicte results expanded by default" & "switch to Tra...