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Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by duxup on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @01:10PM (#37918192)
In the days of P2P file sharing I used to share files with file names and metadata indicating they were rare Metallica live recordings of Metallica songs and other metal band's songs.... but instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwK_WOXjfc0

So many downloads.

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Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by ahartmetz on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:39PM (#37920491)
Oh, hello Lars Ulrich!
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Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by swores on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:16PM (#37920944)
Hopefully you've since grown up a bit and discovered some hobbies that don't involve being a dick to annoy strangers?
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Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by pseg134 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @05:39PM (#37921970)
You are stealing from musicians so I think you are the dick and you are annoying me, a stranger!
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Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by duxup on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:48PM (#37923960)
If you’re pirating music I would hope you could enjoy a good joke…
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Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by tormeh on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:23PM (#37921046)
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwK_WOXjfc0

I'm downright shocked that this wasn't Rick Astley.

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Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by tbossanova on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @04:45PM (#37921341)
Was expecting to be rickrolled!
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Re:Using Goatse to Stop App Theft by extraduder_ire on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:44PM (#37924330)
This is part of how Soulja Boy became famous initially, by uploading his song "Crank That" with the metadata from various top-40 tracks of the time.

Or so he says, it may have been mostly copycats after a time.

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