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The added noise reminds me of WASTE, which was infamously created by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft to protest the post-acquisition atmosphere at AOL...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE

https://web.archive.org/web/20100317095429/http://www.rollin...

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IIRC release of WASTE was closely tied to the vesting of his AOL options and his departure from AOL that followed. So it was more of a farewell finger really than a "protest".

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