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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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Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers 2004-03-26
Anonymous
if you think that there are equivalent freeware apps out there, then why don't you find all of them then post them on a site, newsgroup, or forum for us "poor" people who think that the software companies are charging 100x the cost it takes to write the program. Now I understand that they pay people...

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