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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
Just some quick thoughts on the matter. There are a large number of assumptions going on here. I'll just cut to the chase. The writers of the program assumed anyone downloading files of such a nature are pirates. That makes them irresponsible in the collection of data. They also collected data ...

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