What is a Cuckoo Egg?
A Cuckoo Egg is an MP3 file that resembles a copyrighted song that is being distributed without the copyright holder’s authorization. A Cuckoo Egg will typically contain the initial 30 seconds of the real song with the rest of the song being overwritten by some non-copyrighted material such as white noise or a repeating cuckoo clock sound effect. Cuckoo Eggs will have the same playing time and file size as the song it purports to be.
