RIAA messaging gambit faces countermeasures

RIAA messaging gambit faces countermeasures
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-04-30

To the Recording Industry Association of America, sending threatening messages to online music swappers is a potentially effective way to educate the public that trading copyrighted material is wrong. But to security geeks in the file trading community, the technique is just another volley in the electronic war with peer-to-peer opponents... and a rather trivial one at that.

And the end of the story ? 2003-05-02
Anonymous

I'd guess that all the P2P traffic will end up being encrypted and anonymized, so that nobody can trace back anybody else's data and source-ip.

It's funny/tragic how those people @ RIAA et.al have learned nothing from the Cold War and the Arms Race that could be applied to their business model.

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