dhc014 and chsbiking both submitted this article on Slashdot.org in which the RIAA has officially stated that the claims of an elaborate P2P worm, which we reported about yesterday, are a complete hoax:
A hoax message posted to two security mailing lists Monday suggests that the Recording Industry Association of America has hired a group of hackers who have developed a worm capable of infecting and shutting down peer-to-peer file-sharing software. The hackers claim to have released the worm, on the RIAA's orders, and that it now controls almost 95 percent of "all P2P participating hosts." |
The RIAA said the message was a total fabrication. "It's a complete hoax," said an RIAA spokesman in Washington. "Someone forwarded the message to us and that was the first we heard or read about it."
More information on the RIAA's statement can be found here (Slashdot) and here (eWeek). Do you think the RIAA is telling the truth.. ?
Source: Slashdot
