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Record Labels creating software to sabotage your computers!!! Reuters covers a NY Times story on how record companies are financing the development of viruses, worms or Trojan horses designed to sabotage computers in the name of copyright enforcement.
Some of the world's largest record labels are quietly financing the creation of programs by small software firms that, if implemented, would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music, according to a published report. Citing industry executives, The New York Times reported in an article that appeared on its Web site on Saturday, that the efforts bear varying degrees of legality including attacking a computer's Internet connection to slow or halt downloads and overwhelming distribution networks with programs that masquerade as music files. "There are a lot of things you can do--some quite nasty," the Times quoted Marc Morgenstern, chief executive of software company Overpeer, as saying. The company receives support from several large media companies, it said. Read about it ALL here: http://news.com.com/2100-...99612.html ...and pass it on. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ If you hack into a record company  , you go to jail and get branded a cyberterrorist by the media and them, but they can legally sabotage your computer!?!? What the FUCK is that? 
And rather than working and investing into BETTER artists and musicians, they invest in messing with YOUR computer, when will the "sleeping men" wake up before these tyrannts, to use their words, "cyber-terrorize" us? ooo [This message was edited Mon May 5 23:50:04 PDT 2003 by FlyingCloudPassenger] | |
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FlyingCloudPassenger said: Reuters covers a NY Times story on how record companies are financing the development of viruses, worms or Trojan horses designed to sabotage computers in the name of copyright enforcement.
Some of the world's largest record labels are quietly financing the creation of programs by small software firms that, if implemented, would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music, according to a published report. Citing industry executives, The New York Times reported in an article that appeared on its Web site on Saturday, that the efforts bear varying degrees of legality including attacking a computer's Internet connection to slow or halt downloads and overwhelming distribution networks with programs that masquerade as music files. "There are a lot of things you can do--some quite nasty," the Times quoted Marc Morgenstern, chief executive of software company Overpeer, as saying. The company receives support from several large media companies, it said. Read about it ALL here: http://news.com.com/2100-...99612.html ...and pass it on. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ If you hack into a record company , you go to jail and get branded a cyberterrorist by the media and them, but they can legally sabotage your computer!?!? What the FUCK is that?
And rather than working and investing into BETTER artists and musicians, they invest in messing with YOUR computer, when will the "sleeping men" wake up before these tyrannts, to use their words, "cyber-terrorize" us? ooo [This message was edited Mon May 5 23:50:04 PDT 2003 by FlyingCloudPassenger] Yeah...WHAT THE FUCK ISSS THAT SHIT!!! The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain.
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I would fully support the measure if they were 100% able to limit their attacks to illegally-obtained music.
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If they stopped ripping the public off then people wouldn't feel so inclined to "steal" music. | |
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IceNine said: I would fully support the measure if they were 100% able to limit their attacks to illegally-obtained music.
I think their picking fights with the customer. Two negatives won't make it right. And limit their attacks? So as long as they could somehow just browse your Mac or other PC for those "illegally" obtained music...that would be okay. How would they know which tracks are "illegally" obtained? How would they have proof? They would have to spend more money on re-printing their whole catalogs with DRM info. But CD's are permanently written on CD...? It seems messy and maybe like "digital bluff" that their developing. Also, CyberPunks will mess with them and defeat things. It will happen. They are just creating a mess for themselves, them record companies. And wait until iTunes Music store customers and other people using other "digital music" services figure out DRM technology.You might not fully support that. But that's another thread. I do FULLY support 110% the record labels finding and promoting and developing great artists that one respects and contribute something positive to the world. Giving us artists that give us something worthwhile. I FULLY support record labels paying those artists fairly, supporting artists THEY have stolen from the past or who were given fucked up deals and live in poverty while THEY, the record companies live off THEIR work. ooo [This message was edited Tue May 6 11:16:54 PDT 2003 by FlyingCloudPassenger] | |
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