RIAA and Virus [Archive] - Zeropaid Forums

lymedis

January 25th, 2003, 06:24 AM

Well the truth is out the so called protecters of rights have resorted to the use of Viruses in there' attempt to stop P2P I think I just might spend the day ripping every CD I own and make them available to everyone. As a tech I really hate Viruses about 50% of the P.C.s I repair are infected. Follow the link for more info http://www.virusbtn.com/

maartendc

January 25th, 2003, 06:38 AM

Link don't work dude...

And if you're dumb enough to download a .exe that's a
few kb large, then you deserve to have a viruss...

NAPSTER_DOT_COM

January 25th, 2003, 11:55 AM

HA HA!

lymedis

January 26th, 2003, 07:29 AM

I don't know why the link didn't work for you works just fine from here. You would be surprised at the # of users who set up the P.C.with auto Task schedule and then turn them off. somehow they assume the machine can turn itself on. Me I trust nobody
and even scan my updates, call me parinoid but to me better safe then sorry. Take Care.

gaelj

January 26th, 2003, 10:53 AM

This virus is supposed to infect MP3 files and players. It was already talked about earlier in ZP. Apparently it's a hoax - at least, the RIAA denied it and many security experts confirmed it was a hoax. However with the new laws that are about to be voted in the US, it will be legally possible for the RIAA to use such tactics to fight P2P - we can therefore take this story as a good warning of what is coming up.
The virus was supposed to use a buffer overrun exploit in the MP3 players to execute malicious code.
Therefore if it is true then it's no use not downoading ".exe files a few kb large"...