Ian Clarke, one of P2P’s greatest innovators, comments on the latest news that the RIAA is planning on infecting P2P users with a virus that could damage their system.
Read the story on Zeropaid.com
Yesterday, The Register broke the story regarding the issue and many Zeropaid followers screamed in an outrage for information regarding the topic. So today I emailed one of the most important people in file sharing, Ian Clarke, and asked him for his opinion and this is what I got.
“This is almost definitely a hoax. the most likely explanation is that
this is a rather transparent attempt by this “hacker” to get some
publicity. It is almost inconceivable that the RIAA could be so foolish
as to open themselves up to criminal liability, since writing computer
viruses has been illegal for some time, and it still is. If the RIAA is
involved in any way, it is more likely that they encouraged this person
to make these false claims as a scare tactic.”
“In the unlikely event that this story is not a hoax, then users of P2P
software shouldn’t be too concerned since the RIAA will be too busy
defending themselves against criminal prosecution to worry about people
violating their copyright.”
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