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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 2006-04-23
Anonymous
First; DMCA is irrelevant here in Europe. Over here we prefer privacy laws over big brother/"lets implement DRM into everything"-nazi tacticts.

Second; No.

Compare: You can probably patent a harmful drug (thereby gaining legal protection for it from compeditors) but they are STILL harmful drug...

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