Windows Media Player automatically downloading the album covers and band bios of your illegally downloaded MP3s: classic or dud

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It's kind of cool when your checking out a band for the first time, but kind of creepy, right?

― Shaun (shaun), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.winamp.com/

― Gribowitz (Lynskey), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

fuck that...

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Sputtering paranoid version: DUD because it probably transmits some "marker" back that someone checks against the SoundScan or BigChampagne figures for that album, and next thing you know FBI are breaking down your doors.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I don't illegally download any music they know about

― gainfully employed (ex machina), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)

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