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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 am sorry, but you actuall seem to assume there are people out there LEGALLY using file-sharing programs like kazaa and stuff... I dont know any, every use it to steal music and software, so if you are on it, you are a pirate... good for these guys....

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