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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
I find this prank to be in very bad taste. Not only does it waste users' time, waste tech support time, and waste their own time - but it also _supports_ the very thing they wish to end - illegal file sharing. By uploading the file onto the Gnutella network under the UT2K4 name, they increase the ...

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