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RIAA Plans Cyberwar Effort

Posted by michael on from the unleash-the-dogs-of-jazz dept.

Richie Z writes "This article at the New York Times talks about new anti-piracy efforts from the music industry, some of questionable legality. One idea simply redirects users to a website with legal downloads. But two other programs freeze the user's system or delete music files determined to be illegal. Another proposed idea is basically a DoS attack against downloaders. I guess the RIAA believes the law only applies to their enemies." They had a solution to illegality planned.

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  1. Counter Counter Measures Already Started by villoks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well,

    Not so surprisingly the other side is already monitoring the RIAA activities and in this case some of results are already in public. For example, Peer-Guardian tries to protect the P2P-clients from the hostile IP-addresses. There's a quite nice article about the topic in Security Focus.

    V.

  2. Re:Not so by dogfart · · Score: 4, Informative
    NO! A tort is NOT a crime! A tort is an action for which a court may mandate that the compensate another party, e.g., your lack of property maintenance causes damage to my property in a storm, you have to compensate me.

    You cannot be jailed for a tort. Being sued != being arrested. Being sucessfully sued != criminal conviction.

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