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Labels reportedly back antipiracy software - hmm?

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suselinux:

quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
I wonder if that trojan horse affects Linux/OSX?

Nah, probably not.
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for that very reason this might drive more people
to our community

jtpenrod:
As for what these asshole record companies are planning:
quote:One method is a "Trojan horse" program that simply redirects users to Web sites where they can legitimately buy the songs they had tried to download.

Another locks up a computer for a certain amount of time, minutes or hours, risking the loss of data that was not saved if the user restarts the computer, the paper reported.
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Now just who do you suppose they're going after here?    ;)   A "Trojan Horse" program like that (and just how would they deploy it?    :rolleyes:  <cough>Outlook/Outlook Express</cough> ;)  or one that "locks up" the computer, can't do that on any Linux/*NIX/OS X op-sys unless it has root priveledges. And even if it somehow did that, with Linux, you just <CTRL><ALT><F1>, log in as a different user and "kill" that sucker.

I sincerely hope that these RIAA assholes really do try it. It will be highly entertaining to watch His Gatesness rip them a new one for fucking around with millions of Winderz systems.            
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avello500:
if this comes to light i bet most windows users dont even know when it happens. all the blue screens and all.

SpeeDFreaK:
Seriously, why the f**k do they still think they're entitled to money from "lost sales due to piracy". The times when people bought a CD and got a load of crap because of one song are on their way out. I want to see them do this. I will laugh as they're kicked off of the net and their servers turn into one big lump of molten metal and silicon on the ground.

slave:
You see, MisteR2, the record companies have a bass-ackwards way of thinking about things.  They like to make up numbers and give wild exaggerations about how much they've "lost" due to sharing, ("piracy") but how many of those people would have otherwise bought copies from them?  Not many.  They have set up a system the puts profits ahead of the well-being of society, but woe to anyone who disobeys their regime.  Surprisingly, much of the public is behind them, in the sense that they support them by buying their music, and frequently swallow the propaganda that it's wrong to share.  I often hear it from people myself.  And you know what?  It is true to some degree that , the more people that don't buy into their rubbish and share music anyway, the less money the record industry makes, but that doesn't make it wrong.  I'm quite sure the slave trade was decimated after the American Civil War, but only a slave owner would consider it harmful.  That's exactly what the record industry is: an enslaver of music.  And I think it's as wrong to "own" information as it is to own a human being.

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