

But in recent weeks, scads of "spoof" files have been anonymously posted to the hugely popular sites where music fans illegally trade songs online.

The identity of that someone is a mystery - Moby's label and management team say it wasn't them.

Then I realized someone had posted this on purpose." "It was just 20 seconds of the song, repeated over and over," says Daub, a 26-year-old design director who lives in Arlington. But what wound up on his hard drive wasn't what he expected. Hoping to sample the new album by Moby, he downloaded one of its songs, "We Are All Made of Stars," from the Web site. The first time Travis Daub got "spoofed," he figured faulty software was to blame.
