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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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This is stupid, here is why. 2004-03-19
Anonymous
IT isn't original, and gets nothing done.

in fact, the musci industry had a much better idea of "wasting time" whenit put out songs on the P2P services that were just the first 10 second and the rest was just noise. Much more effective, but it didn't get a notice because it it didn't have a screen ...

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