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Stop the bots
Kelly Martin, 2006-04-18

Botnets are a major source of evil on the Internet, from spam, phishing attacks, virus propagation and denial-of-service attacks to the stealing of financial information and other illegal activity. Does disbanding them raise legal and ethical implications?

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Re: Stop the bots 2006-04-18
Anonymous
The DMCA certainly can't legitimize or be hidden behind if a botnet is discovered. The software is being used to commit crimes, and the crimes would far outweigh any defense using copyright laws. The DMCA doesn't defend itself, so the author of the botnet software would have to go on the offensive...

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