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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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Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-20
Anonymous
I believe that the illegal and questionable planting of these type executionables in software will completely complicate the prosecution of software pirates. If a seized computer is found to have that program imbedded, defense attorney's will have a field day with the factual issue of the defendant...

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