Originally Posted by Dreamtech

Renegade, recording labels do this to stop online piracy activity, they do this by creating bogus songs, to do this they can use a few applications which most artists are familiar with Acid Pro, Wavelab or Cakewalk etc etc. And of course they would move the loop marker in the application from anywhere between 4 - 20 minutes to make it legit (3 - 4 MB), and render the file as an .mp3. Once this is created, and renamed to artist - song title.mp3 they upload it to a server, and with limewire and a few plug-ins create it as a limewire supernode, where people can access the file. Of course, mainly with upcoming songs, older songs they really don't bother with it. The recording company with approval of the artist, will have discussions on what to do when the release is meant for cd, such as "copy protection".

Ok, copy protected cd's are considered by majority of people (unrippable) because WMP doesn't detect the cd. However, they can be ripped into .mp3, .m4a formats. I won't go into detail how to do this, because it is a federal offence with copyright. But it can be done!

The RIAA, ARIA, AMCOS and other federal agencies world wide don't host songs, they just scan the programs to find large pirating organisations, these people organisations download full albums, singles and resell them at a cheaper price (illegally). They also can download and sell movies, games, and software including banned movie and games, such as the movie Ken Park and the game Manhunt for PC.