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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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Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (3 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-21
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Fatman (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Penguinisto
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2006-08-23
Buddha in Cayman
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2008-03-19
Th3Pik3
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous
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 (4 replies)
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-21
Anonymous
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-24
Sambo
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-25
Anonymous
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-26
Anonymous
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-26
Anonymous
Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-21
Anonymous (1 replies)
What you are referring to is TCPA.

Look it up and be afraid...

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Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-25
Anonymous
Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-25
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Zach (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous
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
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-25
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-21
Anonymous
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
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Jim Reading tomshardware
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-19
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous
You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-20
neb (3 replies)
You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-21
bl0rf
You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-21
Anonymous (1 replies)
You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-23
Dragon (1 replies)
...LOL, where does one begin? 2004-03-23
Penguinisto
You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-26
Doug (1 replies)
Re: You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2006-08-04
Chris
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-26
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
Anonymous
Questionable legality? Not by a longshot. 2004-03-20
Eric E (1 replies)
Questionable legality? Not by a longshot. 2004-03-23
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-20
FTP
Definatly illegal, definatly a virus 2004-03-21
Legal software user (1 replies)
Definatly illegal, definatly a virus 2004-03-24
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-21
Anonymous
Don't blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are fully patched! 2004-03-21
Geist (4 replies)
blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are still not fully patched! 2004-03-21
Anonymous
Don't blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are fully patched! 2004-03-22
Anonymous
Don't blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are fully patched! 2004-03-22
Richie086
Don't blame real virus coders cause if you have real copies of Windows then you are fully patched! 2004-03-22
southernwolf
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-22
Anonymous
We like to call that "Entrapment" in the legal world 2004-03-22
Reuben (4 replies)
Not entrapment, but definitely a violation of privacy. 2004-03-22
j0k3r
We like to call that "Entrapment" in the legal world 2004-03-22
Anonymous
Maybe it's not entrapment. 2004-03-23
Anonymous
We like to call that "Entrapment" in the legal world 2004-03-23
Anonymous (1 replies)
We like to call that "Entrapment" in the legal world 2004-03-26
Doug
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-22
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-22
Blu
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-23
Anonymous
McAfee agrees 2004-03-23
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-23
Tek Mann
Why ? 2004-03-23
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Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-24
Anonymous
Downloader beware. 2004-03-24
Anonymous
Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-25
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