the record labels have started flooding soulseek with fake-shares recently. make a search for swizz beats's "it's me bitches" and you'll see what i mean. loads of users with similar sounding names (ciara5, digit56, mrgoogle8) share it but when you try downloading from them it says "awaiting user". fyi this only happens with searches on recent rap singles. i guess their trick is for all of their fake-shares to have real fast access-times/ping-times so that they end up in/clog up the search results before the "legit" shares show up. i kid you not.
― Jeb, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 08:22 (sixteen years ago) link