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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.............. 2004-03-23
Dragon
I totally agree.

I personally use P2P to download and evaluate full versions of an app. Then If I feel that it is worth the over inflated price I will buy it. but I am sorry I will not pay 150 bucks for an operating system. I will not pay 50-60 bucks for a game that I will put maybe 30 hours...

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