Porn Virus Blackmails Victims Over "Copyright Violation"

FishRep writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "A new type of malware infects PCs using file-share sites and publishes the user's net history on a public website before demanding a fee for its removal. The Japanese trojan virus installs itself on computers using a popular file-share service called Winni, used by up to 200m people. It targets those downloading illegal copies of games in the Hentai genre, an explicit form of anime. Website Yomiuri claims that 5,500 people have so far admitted to being infected. The virus, known as Kenzero, is being monitored by web security firm Trend Micro in Japan. Masquerading as a game installation screen, it requests the PC owner's personal details. It then takes screengrabs of the user's web history and publishes it online in their name, before sending an e-mail or pop-up screen demanding a credit card payment of 1,500 yen (£10) to 'settle your violation of copyright law' and remove the webpage."

Comments

Sounds like a plan

[BadAnalogyGuy]

So you call the cops, transfer the money, find out who is on the other end, have the law and credit card agencies come down hard on them.

Unless you're afraid of getting caught with porn...

Re:Sounds like a plan

[OrwellianLurker]

Unless you're afraid of getting caught with porn...

If that porn involves schoolgirls getting raped by tentacles, then yes, I would be afraid of getting caught.

Re:Sounds like a plan

[Thanshin]

If that porn involves schoolgirls getting raped by tentacles, then yes, I would be afraid of getting caught.

Drawings of schoolgirls getting raped.

There's quite a difference. Unless you think they abduct actual schoolgirls, and octopuses, to use them as models.

Re:Sounds like a plan

[Edmund Blackadder]

When will we grow beyond these terrible false negative stereotypes of the fine ancient tradition tentacle porn?

In the more refined examples of tentacle art (as this is its proper name), the school girls are graduate school girls and the tentacle monsters take the girls to dinner and drinks and spend many hours making clever observational comments in trendy downtown winebars before they even brave to invite them to their lair. And even then they fumble nervously around with their tentacles for at least an hour before the exasperated girl finally says that she is really tired from writing her thesis and if she could be brutally violated simultaneously in all possible ways with enormous tentacles, that would really be a change of pace.

Re:Sounds like a plan

[beakerMeep]

Says the AC :)

Re:Sounds like a plan

[not flu]

But everybody is a hypocrite so you'd get condemned for it all the same. On a subject like this you'd get condemned for not condemning it! Most people would at least make a token effort to condemn it publicly just for show, even if they fapped to the same schoolgirls getting tentacled themselves.

Re:Sounds like a plan

[Anonymous Coward]

>Everybody views porn or has viewed porn before, so nobody can condemn you for it without being a hypocrite themselves.

See, that's where you're mistaken. A hypocrite is someone who condemns you while thinking the same condemnation does not apply to them.

I have done many wrong things over the course of my life; my having done them doesn't make them any less wrong, nor does the fact that I've done them and condemn them make me a hypocrite. If you show your horrible scars to your kids and tell them "don't play with fire," does that make you a hypocrite? No, it makes you a responsible person. If I look back at the game I cracked and released to the scene but now say "Don't pirate games; it steals income from developers," it's because I've grown older and wiser and have a little more perspective now.

Re:Sounds like a plan

[martas]

first you'd have to be stupid enough to give your real name to a pirated porn game...

Re:Sounds like a plan

[Nadaka]

The problem with not caring if other people know about it is this: in a lot of places, having viewed hentai drawings is sufficient for criminal charges, prison time and in a few rare cases execution.

Re:Sounds like a plan

[MRe_nl]

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Re:Sounds like a plan

[clone53421]

Wait, what?

Your basic premise fails on two major points:

A) Drawings are not real. Pinocchio is not a real boy, and a girl in a hentai drawing is not a child. A lot of people would spontaneously vomit if they personally witnessed a grisly death but could watch a film chock-full of grisly death and dismemberment because it’s done with stage magic and special effects and it’s just a picture anyway – not real.

B) Watching something means you are attracted to it (or, being attracted to bad stuff is bad). And I could name dozens of movies depicting bad stuff that, according to your logic, should be illegal to watch. A Clockwork Orange, for one.

Just because I watched a violent movie and enjoyed it doesn’t mean I’d enjoy having a ringside seat (behind bullet-proof glass, I suppose) at the next school shooting. And just because I watched the violent movie and enjoyed it doesn’t mean I’d enjoy acting it out.

Re:Sounds like a plan

[Anonymous Coward]

Pinocchio is not a real boy

You obviously didn't watch all the way to the end of the film.

The MAFIAA

[OrwellianLurker]

The MAFIAA must be wondering why they haven't done this yet. "Why waste time in the courts guys? Why lobby politicians?"

Re:Well, it could be worse, right?

[shawb]

By the way, anyone care to tell me why slashdot was showing May 2009 articles earlier?

The editors figured out an easier way to get those all important dupes up?

Winny?

[EdZ]

Serves them right for using an ancient system (two generations behind, PD (Perfect Dark) via Share). This is like someone still using, say, Kazaa, and being surprised there are fake files.

Wonderful reporting courtesy of the BBC

[onlysolution]

I think it's worth pointing that Winni is used almost exclusively by the Japanese, and the total population of Japan is still under 130 million people. The 200 million users figure put forth by the BBC is a bad guess at best, and completely made up at worst. I honestly expected better from the BBS, but why should factual reporting get in the way of writing a sensational story?

I have a guess

[jonaskoelker]

Ethics.

Re:Public Website?

[John Hasler]

> ...the user needs to be stupid or in a panic.

So it only works on 90% of users.