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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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Breaking the law 2004-03-23
Anonymous
I'm not quite sure if you didn't fully explain the law in italy, but it would seem the Playstation mods are different than software mods because you don't really own software, you just own a license. That said, i'm probably horribly wrong cuz i'm ignorant of your laws....

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