It’s a given that the RIAA and MPAA, wholly owned by the record label cartel and movie studios, or contractors such as Overpeer, will leave no dirty trick unturned in their futile war against p2p and file sharers.
Now, they’re using files that look like regular songs or short videos in the Windows Media format to launch pop-up ads and install adware, says PC World. That’s because a Windows Media DRM “loophole” allows companies to create ersatz media files and link them to adware.
The ads could also be used by hackers and thieves, PC World points out, continuing, “Security experts fear that, for example, criminals could load their own modified media files with keystroke loggers or other software for taking over your PC, and thus steal your passwords or other sensitive information.”
And David Caulton, group product manager for Microsoft Windows digital media division, is quoted as saying, “It’s possible that someone could modify [an existing audio] file after it’s created to point back to their http server.”
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