Extended Top 11 List
In conjunction with our recent Top 11 list on KaZaA, we're pleased to bring you an extended dance mix, containing all of the top suggestions tendered by your fellow Network Computing readers. Enjoy. Top 11 Signs your ISP has given...
March 7, 2003
In conjunction with our recent Top 11 list on KaZaA, we're pleased to bring you an extended dance mix, containing all of the top suggestions tendered by your fellow Network Computing readers. Enjoy.
Top 11 Signs your ISP has given you up to the RIAA as a dangerous KaZaA user
You receive an email from your ISP asking you to update your personal information, including your real name -- Jason Olson
Your MP3 'sharing' software starts to us SSL to encrypt it's transmissions -- Jason Olson
Every file, regardless of the title, only plays Sting's "I'll Be Watching You." -- Eric Newsome
When you do a search on Marilyn Manson the results that come back are 'Diamonds are a girl's best friend' and 'Helter Skelter' -- Jay Eggers
You get a bill in the mail charging you 99 cents per downloaded track. Total bill... $297000 -- Brian Tunget
Your ISP forwards you an e-mail from Kazaa congratulating you on your one-millionth download -- Pete Baurer
Your Kazaa rating changes from "Supreme being" to "Defendant" -- Rick Snaric
All the usual Orbitz pop up ads have been replaced with ads for defense lawyers -- Rick Snaric
All of your google searches return links to court summons in pdf format -- Rick Snaric
Your digital camera takes new pictures when you plug it in to download old pictures -- Brad Davis
You start getting spam from the U.S. Justice Department -- Kevin Pruett
You get daily emails encouraging you install Service Pack 3 on your Windows 2000 -- Bryan Shane
Hillary Rosen starts sending you e-mails at 3 a.m. with embedded WAV files of heavy breathing -- Randy Woods
You download what you think is the new Chili Peppers album only to find you now have 13 copies of the new Michelle Branch single -- Kurt Loy
My email used to end with "shaw.ca", suddenly they've changed it to "shawshank.ca" -- Rob Davis
Your IP address appears on America's Most Wanted -- Mark Jass
The Kazaa name now reads AhHaa! -- K. Prewett
You have numerous songs from someone named LIRVA Lavigne -- Travis Rogers
All of the buttons in KaZaA have changed to "Buy it now!" -- Howard Blair
You load in your favorite MP3 layout into Nero and all the files are now "Lars Ulrich sings 'Feelings'." -- Howard Blair
All the spam in your Inbox is from Jack Valenti -- Howard Blair
You find 2,000 copies of "Hilary Rosen Nude.jpg" in your KaZaA download -- Howard Blair
CD-shaped crop circles appear in your back yard. (Can I have a glass of water?) -- Howard Blair
Metallica shows up at your house...and eggs, shaving-creams, and TP's your car -- Howard Blair
You get kicked of the campus network for downloading the theme song to "spongebob squarepants." -- Ryan Moore
Bobby Brown, Vanilla Ice, and MC Hammer are picketing outside your home with signs that read, "Piracy doesn't pay my bills." -- Douglas R. Fioto
You receive a strange request from someone using an excessive amount of outdated hacker wanna-be slang claiming that a friend said you could "hook them up" with the latest Snoop Dog album. -- Patrick Kingsley
Eminem insults your mother in his next single -- Rod R
Your computer suddenly has a Tommy Mottola screen saver -- Rod R
Greta Van Sustern starts taking your calls -- Rod R
Bill O'Reilly stops taking your calls -- Rod R
Instead of X10 cameras and Orbitz travel, all of your pop up ads feature Tommy Motola handing you a subpoena -- Benjamin Gerhart
Every time you go to a file sharing site, a pop-up asks "You know you're breaking the law, don't you?" -- David Petrie
You use Kazaa and you read in the newspaper that the RIAA has filed 180 million copyright infringement lawsuits -- Steve Fuller
Your ISP sends you a singing telegram alerting that includes 15 lawyers to explain your rights to the telegram before you listen to it -- Jeff Lynes
The latest song that was downloaded and played, generously installed riaa.dll on the Windows box -- Gene Barlow
When you start receiving bills from Columbia House for thousands of CD's.....which is strange since you haven't bought any since 1992.... -- Steve Bruhn
You need to deposit a nickel into your computer before each song starts -- Fred Swirbul
You left your house with your computer turned on and KaZaA running, and came home to find it displaying the message "NTOSKRNL.EXE not found - you took our stuff, so we took yours." -- Kevin Gennuso
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