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RIAA/MPAA Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans

Posted by michael on from the gloves-are-OFF dept.

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.

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  1. Aahhhhhhh by DisasterDoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

    High that explains why that Jessica Simpson song I downloaded suddenly made my head explode. :-)

  2. We need to take advantage of this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hack it so that it sends out complaint emails to RIAA and DOSes the RIAA website. Also make it crawl and fill out any RIAA forms on the website. Use random algorithms so they can only statistically cut down on the traffic.