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Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-03-18

A pair of coders nurturing a deep antipathy for software pirates set off a controversy Thursday when they went public with a months-old experiment to trick file sharers into running a Trojan horse program that chastises users and reports back to a central server.

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Good for them 2004-03-19
nosebreaker.com (1 replies)
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-20
Anonymous (4 replies)
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-21
Anonymous (1 replies)
ROTFLMAO! 2004-03-19
Penguinisto
Breaking the law 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
Breaking the law 2004-03-23
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
This is stupid, here is why. 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
This is stupid, here is why. 2004-03-20
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Jim Reading tomshardware
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous


Angry people caught should stop whining

booby traps are part of the risk of

pirating copyrighted software it's

everywhere Hackers plant traps.....

programmers who want to protect there shareware apps from piracy plant traps

and expensive closed software has them

too. Sorry the 'I'm poor and can't afford to buy it so I pirate' argument doesn't wash at all with me especially free or open source apps are avalible that are of equal value.

I'd like people to please think about the programmers who make a living selling his

or her software they have kids and bills to

pay don't steal there stuff ok? they aren't

rich or have a bank account like Bill Gates

or Warren Buffet.

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Definatly illegal, definatly a virus 2004-03-21
Legal software user (1 replies)
McAfee agrees 2004-03-23
Anonymous
Why ? 2004-03-23
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Downloader beware. 2004-03-24
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-25
Darkness(TrustyFiles user)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2006-08-23
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