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This is a Daily Hook EXCLUSIVE! Almost. First of all, this is no bullshit.

News is coming across the wire that Timbaland stole the sample for Nelly Furtado’s “Do It.” According to a poster who goes by the tag Okkie on the Something Awful forum Timbaland stole the complete musical line from a Finnish demoscener named Janne Suni, who goes by the tag Tempest. For those of you that are not familiar with the demoscene, its basically an underground group of artists who produce video and music to be placed along with cracktros before pirated and shareware software. According to Okkie,

…in 2000 at Assembly, one of the biggest demoparties in Finland, Tempest competed in the so-called ‘Oldskool Music Compo’, a competition meant for music on old platforms like Amiga, c64, ZX-Spectrum and the likes. His entry ‘Acid Jazzed Evening’, a 4 channel Amiga .MOD won the competition.

Okkie continues,

A c64 musician called grg remade the song on the c64 (using the infamous SID soundchip) which is what Timbaland used for Furtado’s song.

Okkie claims that Suni has no intention on suing Timbaland or Geffen records, but I have a feeling that something might come into fruition in the near future. Okkie has uploaded sample clips of original Tempest track of ‘Acid Jazzed Evening’, the grg remake, and a clip of the Timbaland produced Nelly Furtado track ‘Do It’.

Finally here is a torrent download of a demonstration showing the production process.

This could turn out to be major. Timbaland is a hell of a producer and has major skill, but it is unfortunate if this turns out to be true.

Edit: Several people posted comments regarding my somewhat vague definition of the demo scene. I did not mean to suggest that the demo scene and piracy/cracking go hand in hand. They do not. The demo scene does have roots in cracking, but now a days there is a huge demo scene that no longer has any association to piracy. I also have no problem saying that I USE TO be an active scener (and not the demo scene) so trust me in that it was just bad journalism. Please refer to the comments for further clarification.

NYC has the highest HIV/AIDS rate in the nation. This sucks. But no worries, our boy Mikey Mike Bloomberg is on top of shit. He plans to start distributing NY brand condoms featuring the different city subway lines. This gives a whole new meaning to running a train! I think it might be more cool if it said I <3 NY upon full erection. But what do I know about cool? None the less, these will make great collectors items if people don't decide to strap up.

Source: Gothamist

I didn’t smell it, but thats probably because I have a stuffy nose, but today NYC stunk bad! Apparently the city was struck by a stank odor, but luckily it wasn’t harmful. A few trains and buildings were evacuated but the city came to the conclusion that the gas was not hazardous. Hopefully people don’t start dropping like flies tomorrow.

If I remember right, didn’t the city smell like maple syrup one day last year? Considering I live here I am really out of the loop when it comes to odors striking the city.

If you’re interested you can read the rest of the AP story on the Mysterious Odor. Don’t ask why I’m linking to a Chinese newspaper.

Well kind of! A newborn baby was born on the L train platform at Broadway Junction on Wednesday night. Three NYPD officers assisted in the delivery of the baby. Apparently it was a quick delivery since the baby was delivered before the ambulance arrived! With such a quick birth in an unexpected location it makes one wonder if the mother even knew she was pregnant. Yeh Yeh I know its not possible! Or is it?

Source: NY 1

I just wanted to wish all of our readers a Happy New Year. I wish you all nothing but the best in 2007. It feels great to have a clean slate doesn’t it?

As the Blackeyed Peas famously said, “Where is the Love?”

After a string of Christmas day robberies, taking thousands of dollars of money off the hands of several churches, the Christmas day crooks were caught today with $6,000 in cash. The Associated Press reports,

NEW YORK – Two men were arrested in the callous Christmas Day theft of tens of thousands of dollars in donations from a church, and about $6,000 in cash was recovered, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Damn right! You can’t rob a church on Christmas.

Read the rest on the NYC Christmas day church robbery.

…and I have total disregard for all that The Dailyhook stands for! Why is Linsay Lohan always in the news over worthless stuff? Why does anyone even care about this girl? Most importantly, why am I even posting news on her?

Actress Lindsay Lohan shared the stage with strippers for an evening at a New York City nightclub, according to The New York Post’s Page Six.

Read more on Lindsay Lohan dancing with strippers

Yesterday morning a woman was struck by the R train while she was standing on the platform somewhere between 95th St and 36th St in Brooklyn. I hate to be cruel but they have the yellow line on the platform for a reason. Apparently she was standing on the platform with her husband when she was struck by the train. If it turns out that she was pushed in front of the train, I’m truly a dick.

Fortunately I am not in the city right now or else I’m sure I would have been caught up in this sad event as I take the R train every day.

You can read the rest of the woman killed by R train story at 7Online.

I’ll help this spammer out a little bit because its hilarious,

As she was trying parishilton sex tape regain her composure he pulled her up on her knees and pressed his semi-hard cock to her serrate lips.

..I found this in my logs. This is one reason I don’t implement better spam protection. It very often brings a smile to my face, plus it helps me uncover good niches to document!

Image from The Sun Online.

In today’s world, graffiti has gone high tech. Teens are no longer tagging up bathrooms but they have have rather moved on to BIGGER things. Ben Ashford of The Sun writes,

PRANKSTERS drew a willy on the roof of a top school that was so large it could be spotted from SPACE. But it went unnoticed until it was seen on Google Earth.

A group of ex-pupils was last night blamed for the rude shape — snapped by satellite.

This is great. Check out the rest of the Google Earth Graffiti article.