Fox & Rabbits implies an arms race. Fox & Hounds implies dead Fox. Here's a way to tickle the Fox. With a taser^H^H^H^HLinux. Copied from another list. On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:12:53PM -0700, David Honig wrote: > It would be amusing to create very large files named Planet_of_the_Apes > hosted on very slow servers ----servers slow enough to discourage actual > downloaders, but existent enough to annoy Fox. 'Servers' includes > numerous P2P tools, so you can do this at home. > > Extra credit if the very large files are uniformly distributed noise. > > Extra credit if the noise has the appropriate headers so it looks like > a Divx or whatever is a plausible format. trivial to accomplish, too. attached to this mail is an empty mpeg file (zipped). you can inflate it to any size you desire by doing (on Linux): unzip empty.zip dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=xxx >>empty.mpg where xxx is the number of KB you want to add. use 681574400 for 650 MB which is the size of a CD and would look very promising for a pirated movie.