With the shocking news of the King of Pop's sudden and unfortunate death, millions of fans and supporters immediately took to the internet, firing up blogs and social networking sites to discuss the legendary pop icon, whose music they had grown up listening to. The most loyal supporters paid their tribute by sharing Jackson's music with netizens who were eager to download all of those timeless songs they had loved so much, yet couldn't quite remember the names of anymore.
"We'd like to take this moment to remember Michael's songs. Because only a few of us actually recall the lyrics to any of them now," said one downloader.
Fans flooded popular file-sharing sites such as Limewire and BitTorrents to download the pop classics, with a reported 50,000 gigabytes of information being trafficked less than 24 hours after his death. Fans and well-wishers claimed that they needed to talk knowledgably about Jackson's music and update themselves on his catalog of albums which they couldn't quite, for the life of them, recall the titles of.
"Was it Thriller the one video with Joe Pesci?" asked one file sharer on condition of IP anonymity. "I keep getting the one with the zombies and the one with the robot mixed up. I'm scared that if someone asks me what my favorite song is, I'll make an ass out of myself. That's what motivates me to download his songs today. Say, which is the one where he starts smashing up the car out of nowhere and then turns into that crazy tiger??"
File sharers plan to brush up on their MJ history over the weekend, starting from the Jackson Five and then his illustrious solo career, to show off their knowledge and engage in friendly debate at the water cooler on Monday.
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