Reverend J points us to an article on The Register website. According to hacker group Gobbles, the RIAA is preparing to infect MP3 files in order to audit and eventually disable file swapping:
"Several months ago, GOBBLES Security was recruited by the RIAA (riaa.org) to invent, create, and finally deploy the future of antipiracy tools. We focused on creating virii/worm hybrids to infect and spread over p2p nets," writes Gobbles. |
"Until we became RIAA contracters [sic], the best they could do was to passively monitor traffic. Our contributions to the RIAA have given them the power to actively control the majority of hosts using these networks."
Gobbles claims that when a peer to peer host is infected, it catalogs media and sends the information "back to the RIAA headquarters (through specifically crafter requests over the p2p networks) where it is added to their records", and also propagates the exploit to other nodes.
According to the article 95% of all p2p-participating hosts are already infected with the software that Gobbles developed for the RIAA... Sounds pretty sick and illegal to me!
Source: The Register
