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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
Penguinisto
"If not, the law is being broken and privacy invaded. No-one has any right to install software on someone else's PC unless they have agreed to the installation."

Err, isn't permission implied when the user willingly downloads, then clicks on the .exe file?

Besides, who would step forward and ...

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