The war against spy and addware continues now the the front with the popular fileswapping programs like Kazaa,Grokster enz enz.
For the past several weeks, the pseudonymous programmer, a college student who declines to give his real name, has been releasing versions of popular file-swapping programs online with the advertising and user-tracking features stripped out. |
He's done Grokster and iMesh. And he's not alone. His work, now available through the Grokster and iMesh networks themselves, joins that of other programmers who have previously cleaned programs such as Kazaa and Audiogalaxy in a campaign against adware and spyware.
I've never been a big fan of large companies spying on their users,Dr. Damn wrote in an instant messenger interview.
Now those same companies, seeking revenue to support their own businesses, are complaining that their intellectual property is being hijacked. In almost every case, the hacked version of their software is even being distributed through their own file-swapping networks.
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Source: CNet
