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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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Re: You all might think it's all fun and games.............. 2006-08-04
Chris
I agree whole-heartedly. If you think that it's not worth to money to buy a program from the programmer or to buy a cd from a musician, then you obviously can't want it that badly. If you felt that strongly that you needed the files, you would go buy them. But the fact remains that you don't thin...

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