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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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...LOL, where does one begin? 2004-03-23
Penguinisto
As a preface, I will say up front that the MPAA and RIAA are wrong in their litigation practices, as media such as video and music are legally fuzzy areas as per P2P (WRT recoding entertainment from the radio or TV vs. from the Internet.)

OTOH, software piracy is clearly illegal, dangerous to th...

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