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RIAA/MPAA Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans
RichardX writes "Overpeer, the organization responsible for seeding many peer to peer networks with damaged, corrupt and fake files has now found a way of hiding spyware and adware inside Windows Media files by using a DRM loophole and is using this technique to further pollute p2p networks." Several readers sent in a PCworld article on the same subject.
Same way people get away with infringing copyright on a massive scale. They assume since the technology exists to allow them to do what they want, then rules no longer apply. Why shouldn't that work both ways?
Consider that this adware gets installed only if you attempt to download copyrighted material. A good analogy is a clothing store that attaches those little ink cartridges to clothing items that can only be removed by a device at the cash register. If you shoplift a suit, take it home, try to remove the cartridge and the suit that you shoplifted gets squirted with ink, can you sue the store for damaging your clothing?
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
After all, two wrongs don't make a right, no?
They do in American states that murder murderers.
(not trolling, just pointing out that state sanctioned hypocracy already exists)
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Do you live in the United States? If so, take the advice of myself along with just about every other American and get the fuck out now asshole! Don't let the door hit your ass on the way. If you live in another country already, just remember the US Army has saved your ass before, wherever you live.
I am no fan of the Iraq war myself, but the troops are NOT responsible for it, nor do they deserve to die in order to keep the Iraqi population terrorized. Politics is one thing, but wishing death on the people who gave their lives to protect you is just despicable. Keep that in mind, you sorry sack of shit!
"Bring it on"
Seems to me I remember someone - some other asshole - saying that last year.
IIRC a week or so ago, one of the Iraqi resistance groups said in a communique, "We did. More than you expected. Do you have a further challenge?"
If you are in Iraq, you are an occupier in an illegal war waged for oil and geopolitics which you cannot comprehend (obviously you're not very intelligent, or you wouldn't be a corporal in a military willing to get killed for someone else's reasons - and I say that having been an enlisted Spec5 in the US Army in Vietnam in 1967-1968) and therefore you are part and parcel of a US military that has murdered literally thousands of Iraqi civilians - including thousands of women and children - and therefore you are a war criminal and should be arrested, tried and executed as such.
Anyone who participates in or directly supports this genocidal/religious assault on civilians should be killed immediately. Including you.
Have a nice day.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Aren't you the cutest trollboy? There's nothing illegal per se about filesharing.