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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 2004-03-20
Anonymous
I have one of those sharing apps on one of my lab machines. It's great! Every time I search for and find some obscure chip or transistor datasheet I put it up for sharing. This has got to be the easiest form of web publishing ever - anywhere I am I can use the P2P to get my files, with no hosting...

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