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10th

Firefox Flash Hack… Download Justin Timberlake’s New Song

Posted in Technology by Douglas Karr at 1:44 pm

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Justin Timberlake

This is an interesting from my good friend, Bill Dawson. Using Mozilla, go to Justin Timberlake’s Website.

You can see and play his new song on the site, Sexy Back.

Type in about:cache in the Address Bar and you’ll see all of the files that the page references. Unfortunately for Justin, his Flash developers lead us directly to the file to download… very well disguised I must say!

Search the page for .mp3

Cache

I wonder how many other sites are so dumb.

PS: I’m not a Justin Timberlake fan.

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Comment by Trent Wolodko
2006-10-15 17:25:15

Seems like the folks over at justintimberlake.com have a sense of humor. I just grabbed track 2, sexyback, using the above method. 192kb/s mp3, quality recording of the popstars latest little club ditty.

Here’s what’s in the mp3 file’s ID3 info:

Title: Don’t Download This Song
Artist: Weird Al Yankovic
Album Striaght Outta Lynwood
Year: 2006

Comedy.

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Comment by Douglas Karr
2006-10-15 19:52:24

That is funny! It’s still dumb that they’re putting out there for everyone to find, though. Flash has some great multimedia features that could be implemented to stream the MP3 and not reference it directly like this.

If it were you or me, we’d be looking for attorneys to defend ourselves from the RIAA right now!

Thanks, Trent!
Doug

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Comment by Sam
2006-10-21 07:02:32

Remember guys, not everyone surfing the net or particularly Justin Timberlake’s Website, knows how to do that, just too few can do that, and get the mp3 files for free. it’s not a big deal!
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Comment by sergio
2006-10-26 05:21:15

Well, let me just be the first to say that http://www.eminem.com is just as bad as Justin Timberlake’s site. But at least on http://www.eminem.com the designer reduced the quality of the mp3 to 64Kb/s =)
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Comment by umm
2008-01-26 13:31:39

Looks like the developers have plugged the hole on justin timberlake site. =(
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