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Has the RIAA Wormed 95% of P2P Networks?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the gotta-hope-not dept.

DancingSword was one of many to submit links to a strange story about the RIAA hacking back by sending a worm through the major peer-to-peer networks, supposedly with a 95% infestation rate. Hoax or not?

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  1. That explains... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    why all my porn has been changed to Hillary Rosen with a strap-on.

  2. worm code by macrophage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, I found a copy of the worm's code:

    RIAA - 0wn3d by.... ;p
    oooh riaa want's to hack Filesharing Users / Servers ? - better lern to secure your own server...
    Sorry Admin - had to deactivate ur accounts - they'll be reactivated after 2 hours

    greetz : Rage_X, BRAiNBUG, SyzL0rd, BSJ, PsychoD + all the others who want to stay anonymous :]
    wanna contact ? mailto:h4x0r0815@mail.ru

    Oh, wait, that was the RIAA's web page. Never mind!

  3. Nah. by llamalicious · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got at least 7 mp3 downloads running right now and none of them appear to be infe($!$%. .AF0ERIAA.`/2#..-

  4. Re:Windows Clients/hosts? by i.r.id10t · · Score: 5, Funny

    If this is the case and they are distributing a binary based on GPL code from xmms/mpg123/etc. then don't they have to release the source as well?

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    Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
  5. RIAA statistics by Loonacy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only 10% of the computers were really infected. But they were FAST computers, so they count as 95%.

  6. Re:That explains...(hold on a minute) by gosand · · Score: 5, Funny
    why all my porn has been changed to Hillary Rosen with a strap-on.

    Wait a minute...
    THAT'S NO STRAP-ON !

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    My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.

  7. Gobbles is a glory whore by essdodson · · Score: 5, Funny

    To anyone who's read their advisories in the past this comes as no surprise. Gobbles's sole motivator here is to draw attention. From their security advisories that sound as if they're written by a third grader, to their advisories posted in comic form on their highly deceptive website www.bugtraq.org I've seen little from them that demands respect.

    Besides, if they were working with RIAA, wouldn't the RIAA also have paid them a few bucks to secure their site? If they have, wow, bang up job so far.

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    scott
  8. Re:If you can't beat 'em by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, bad sentence construction usually indicates an American. Apparently, the US public education system is merely designed to instill a yearning for low quality cars, fast food and WWE into it's students - spelling, grammar, mathematics and any kind of art or culture seems to be off the menu

    Hm. Interesting.

    By the way, where are you from, son? If I was to judge you from your post, as you have seen fit to judge others, I'd say, hmmmmm, let's see... Arrogant... Cowardly... ridiculously placing foot in mouth by mis-using it's while criticizing another nation's school system...

    France?

  9. Re:Creation of viree is a crime by hesiod · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never use "RIAA" and "not [...] stupid enough" in the same sentence... It's bound to get you proved wrong.

  10. What's the worm? by phorm · · Score: 5, Funny

    40% of this probably counts all the copies of Brittney Spears and Backstreet Boys songs squirming across P2P, often masquerading as different files. Personally, I'd rather take a real virus than these - an Antivirus can find trojans but none of them seem to have a feature to detect boy/girl-band of the moment type audio files.

  11. Not to worry.. by iamabot · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they have the same people securing their web servers as "infesting" peer to peer networks I don't think we have much to worry about.

    Please view some screen shots from the last 96 hours.

    http://iworktoomuch.com/images/riaa.com-download.j pg
    http://iworktoomuch.com/images/riaa.org.jpg
    http://iworktoomuch.com/images/riaa_tooled_again.j pg