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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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Questionable Ethics? it's everywhere 2004-03-25
Anonymous
Well, in the case of Microsoft Longhorn's spybots, the only thing we can do is NOT buy the new product... Imagine the scene: for the first month in sales, nobody buys the new-absolutely-non-necesary MS product. What would Mr. Gates do?...

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