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April 22, 2005
New Worm Targets MP3 Owners
TheRegister: "Vigilante virus writers believed to be from France have launched an offensive against file traders with the release of a worm that deletes MP3 files on infected PCs." The The Nopir-B worm poses on P2P networks as a program to make copies of commercial DVDs. Only a few copies of the worm have been spotted so far so the outbreak only poses a low risk. As usual Mac users have nothing to fear...Nopir-B only infects Windows machines.
Posted by Todd in Piracy | Permalink
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Wow, that's disgusting. Like the idiots who produce spyware and adware, i hope these losers are recognised for the a**hole crackers they are.
There's no ethical problem with downloading off P2P networks, or making copies of DVDs with ripping programs (as long as you don't charge money for them, or claim to have created them), but there IS a HUGE ethical problem with making worms, viruses, adware etc... and tricking people into getting them onto their computer.
I wonder if these peices of cr*p are being paid by anti-P2P corporate scum like RIAA or some other dodgy organisation (that actually does rip off artists, unlike most P2P users)?
Hell, some of the time you NEED to rip a DVD in order to play something you've bought from overseas! Not to mention thats it's perfectly fair use of a product *you* have purchased to make a copy for your hard drive.
I guess the days of ethically motivated hackers are well-and-truly *dead*.
Posted by: david | Apr 24, 2005 7:29:33 PM
