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RIAA developing weapons of mass destruction: File traders beware. The music industry's five largest labels are all quietly financing the development of a number of aggressive anti-piracy technologies that would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of those who illegally download music from peer-to-peer networks. Among them: "freeze," a program that locks up computers thought to be downloading pirated music and "silence," which scans a computer's hard drive for pirated music files and deletes them (along with, it seems, legitimate music files as well.) While such countermeasures are likely to be a bit more effective in combating piracy on peer-to-peer networks than say, sending out millions of annoying IM messages telling people not to steal music, they do raise some problematic legal issues. "Some of this stuff is going to be illegal," Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School who specializes in Internet copyright issues, told the New York Times. "It depends on if they are doing a sufficient amount of damage. The law has ways to deal with copyright infringement. Freezing people's computers is not within the scope of the copyright laws."
Source: GMSV
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Interesting - I still don't understand why they invest so much into wrist-slapping and being annoying rather than leveraging the technology as an asset and integrating it into their marketing scheme. They must have some chairmen hell-bent on revenge or something. Seriously - they stand to benefit HUGELY by moving into the next millenium of media, but they're rather keep pressing Audio CD's, charging and arm & leg for them, and assuming everything is hunky dorey and that their product is as good as butter and will never have to adapt to suit the needs of changing mankind.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. I hope they get hit HARD by screwing with just the wrong person's computer.
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