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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 will be open to admit that I have pirated software at one time or another. But not through Kazaa or eDonkey, or Bit Torrent. Most of it was for educational/research purposes which still isn't any justification. These kids are just as bad as any other vigilante. Enforcement of the law should on...

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