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.

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The free software perspective is different.

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That's a good enough reason to never touch DRM inflicted Microsoft media files.

Really, it's a reason to steer clear of Microsoft. I don't think I'll have a problem using Xine. At the same time, I'll never make and distribute anything in those stupid formats. Why should I when the vast majority of the installed base will no longer trust the format and not be able to distinguish it from it's player?

This is a really big blow to Microsoft. The whole point of using their platform is to have easy access to the latest and greatest multimedia gadgets. Yet here you are not being able to trust the only player Microsoft wants you to have. At this rate, what's the point?

Don't give me BS about not having to worry if you are not into music sharing. The crackers and virus writers will be all over this backdoor and we'll soon see full auto worms propagating without any assistance from Joe Sixpacks, hapless Microsoft operator.