The Register:  Is the RIAA "hacking you back"?

An exploit of this nature is of dubious legality, right now, but language in Howard Berman's "P2P Piracy Prevention" bill last year legitimizing such exploits was backed by RIAA chief Hilary Rosen:-

The Berman bill, ensured a copyright owner would not be liable for "disabling, interfering with, blocking, diverting, or otherwise impairing the unauthorized distribution, display, performance, or reproduction of his or her copyrighted work on a publicly accessible peer-to-peer file trading network, if such impairment does not, without authorization, alter, delete, or otherwise impair the integrity of any computer file or data residing on the computer of a file trader." Berman is expected to re-introduce the bill in this Congressional session.

A spokesman for the "hacker group" says "they're creating virii/worm hybrids to infect and spread over p2p nets..."

Related:
Ari Pernick links to the message from GOBBLES Security, commenting "Somehow I doubt that the RIAA was dumb enough to do this, but it does highlight the idea and the risk that computing gives us today."

Dumb enough?  They just might be.  Look how they've been destroying their own business.

Wes Felter says "Just as long as they don't try to hack the planet; that's my gig." LOL

1/14/03:
CNET News.com:  "RIAA calls hacking claim a hoax. Claims that the music industry hired a group of hackers to create a worm to infect peer-to-peer networks are being dismissed by the RIAA and security experts." 

Content is Crap  [via Freedom To Tinker]

This article supports its own argument in a way -- it sure seems like pure crap to me! 

>>  "This is not a fad or trendy website looking to impress and garner false internet fame for an attention starved failure in real life. This is a selfish, hedonistic, self-gratifying escape for an overly sensitive yet pretentious girl."  [Coolstop Daily Pick 1/13/03 via calendar.project] 

...what you think.  Itzagas. 

January 2003

 


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