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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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Good for them? - Questionable Ethics 2004-03-26
Anonymous
There is not a law (at least here in the US) that says you can be prosicuted for downloading software that is intended on being downloaded by its creator. This program was designed by its creators to be downloaded. As far as a prosocutor is concerned, this program being found on a hard drive is like...

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