RIAA legal attacks on students

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Tue May 6 20:09:47 PDT 2003


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.





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