Feb 21, 2003 • 1 min read

Madonna loop track released to fool downloaders

Madonna's record label has released a dummy copy of her single on file-sharing sites, a four-second snippet looped to match the single's length, as part of a campaign against illegal downloads.

Madonna's record label is trying that old anti-download trick of swamping illegal download sites with a track, exactly the same length as the actual single, but in reality just a four second snippet of the song on a loop.

It's part of a campaign by the major labels to make downloading from illegal download sites difficult, encouraging music fans to use one of the legit download services run by the major labels.

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