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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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You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2004-03-21
Anonymous
LOL!

Sweet reply neb, I agree with you 100% :) This internet file trading war is getting ridiculous, and the ones who suffer most ain't gonna be us *cough* "pirates"...it's gonna be music, movies, software, and ISP's who all lose big-time in teh end!...

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