At 09:54 PM 5/6/03 +0100, Adam Back wrote:

Here's some more detail about the RIAA legal attacks on four students recently:

In fact it turns out that he was just running a search engine that indexed any files available on windows shares on the local network. You could search for any type of file; as you might expect some of the files users searched for and downloaded were mp3 files.

Dr Dobb's Journal once published *source code* for such a MS-share search tool. Accessories to a federal felony, no doubt.