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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
Zach
This is a two-sided case. Should people pirate software? No. Should your private information (IP address and the like) be recorded and on public display? No. I think this project would have served its purpose if they only posted how many times it was executed and the time spent open after said ...

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