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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
Look, This is a complete outrage.

I do not think that Someone has rigth to execute something on my computer (even though I launched it) and send information to some host, without even asking me if it is OK with me to send my personal information to someone else.

I think that's piracy too. Beat...

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