File swappers and RIAA in Technological chessmatch

The recent RIAA threat to sue those sharing copyrighted material on the net, has provoked the inevitable countermeasures from the software community. The companies are in high gear attempting to thwart the RIAA and protect their users.

iMesh, borrowing a page from the recording industry, plans to plant decoy computers from fake locations that trade non-existent files.

"It's the virus versus the anti-virus software. The firewall versus the hacker," said Elan Oren, chief executive of iMesh in Tel Aviv, Israel. "They're going to come with a measure, we're going to come with a counter measure. At the end of the day, it serves nobody."

The solutions are varied and some are quite surprising. The gloves are definately off. Who will win? Read the complete article here.

Source: CentreDaily.com

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