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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 2004-03-21
Anonymous
You're in America, dude...

You can't fruadulently expose criminals, even if you think it's right.

Keep in mind, unless they commit a crime, they're not criminals. And the benefit of the doubt is with them, to be determined in Court.

It's debateable (unless you're a member of MPAA, SPA, o...

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