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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
"No-one has any right to install software on someone else's PC unless they have agreed to the installation."

I'm pretty sure that if you download and run an executable, you've implicitly given permission for the software to run. Their software doesn't install anything, and has no effect after you...

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