Cuckoo Egg

This is a munged copy of what appears to be copyright-protected material. The Cuckoo Egg project was started as a method of attempting to slow the distribution of illegal copyrighted MP3 files.

The basic technique behind the Cuckoo Egg project is to download an illegal MP3, edit the file so that the first few seconds of it contain the copyrighted material and the rest has been replaced with non-copyrighted cuckoo bird sounds or other random sounds. The overall file size, name, etc. remain the same so users downloading the new file don't realize that it does not contain what they think it should contain.

The project as concentrated on MP3 music files but the term could also be applied to any other media file similarly munged.

More Information

• Cuckoo Egg Project Home Page
• Cuckoo Egg Project Technique Desciption