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Posted by Ren Bucholz on Saturday, May 03 @ 23:23:20 EDT File Sharing
The New York Times reports that about a dozen tech companies are developing hostile, virus-like software at the behest of the recording industry:
Randy Saaf, the president of MediaDefender, another company that receives support from the record industry to frustrate pirates, told a congressional hearing last September that his company "has a group of technologies that could be very effective in combating piracy on peer-to-peer networks but are not widely used because some customers have told us that they feel uncomfortable with current ambiguities in computer hacking laws."
To summarize, the tools could crash a user's computer, find and erase "infringing" files, and slow network traffic to a halt. In other words, all the things you'd expect from someone who wants your business. It does, however, make the recent discussion of trespass doctrines and p2p networks slightly more plausible.
 
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