NewsScan reports that Madonna was targeted by hackers after she was involved with seeding some “decoy” files on
music sharing services:
music sharing services:
MADONNA FIGHTS PIRACY WITH PROFANITYMadonna and Warner Music Group decided to play a trick on music pirates and
hackers responded by defacing her Web site and offering yet-unreleased
songs for downloading. It all started when Madonna lent her voice to a
popular antipiracy technique. “Decoy” files purportedly carrying her new
songs were uploaded onto peer-to-peer file-sharing services, but when
unsuspecting fans downloaded them, they heard Madonna saying “What the f***
do you think you’re doing??” While some music fans got angry, others saw a
creative opportunity and the now-infamous phrase is turning up in dozens of
remixes and the computer-aided musical collages called mashups. “Madonna
was trying to put one over on the kids and they in turn wanted to let her
know that she’s not in as much control as she thinks she is,” says TechTV’s
Morgan Webb. (CNN.com/Reuters/Hollywood Reporter 28 Apr 2003)
Update: commentary and a screenshot of the page. from the Smoking Gun…