There was a pirated copy of "We are the Champions" by Queen circulating LimeWire and Kazaa circa 2003 that's given a generation of people mental whiplash.

Some hooligan thought it would be funny to splice/cut/edit "of the world" at the end of the song, so it concludes with "We are the champions" (jump cut / obvious splice) "of the wooooorld."

There's entire threads out there dedicated to finding that copy of the song because millions of people have heard it, but no one makes the connection between the hostile actors modifying those songs and sharing them on file-sharing applications versus the originals.

There were also numerous garage band covers circulating around also - "Smells like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana was a popular one to hear in extremely low quality with someone banging spoons or something.

Naz remembers.

[–] SevenSwell@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I accidentally downloaded a version of Du Hast back in the day that had a whole bunch of StarCraft unit quotes mixed into it that my dad fell in love with, despite never playing StarCraft. He literally likes it better than the real version lol.

[–] roon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I spent way too much time back in the day updating metadata of music, renaming them, etc

[–] 3FingersOfMilk@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same here. I had my iTunes library meticulously organized. Finding mp3s, downloading them, importing them, then updating the metadata.

And now I just use Spotify lol

[–] TheCaconym@hexbear.net -1 points 2 years ago

I still do all this shit. I'll never switch to those DRM infested subscription services bullshit

[–] Flyingpeakock@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Left my computer on for 2 days to download a movie and it turned out to be porn.

[–] bulletofreason@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Core memory unlocked! The anticipation of waiting for the download to complete and then hear something absolutely wrong was frustrating but I look back at it now and can't help but laugh.