Report proposes using malware to combat piracy

evilfantasy · May 26, 2013

Was there no lesson learned from the Sony rootkit?

Emsisoft blog said:

Just a few days ago the “Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property” released their 84-page report. Amidst a large amount of rather naive ideas there is one idea that strikes us as particularly insane: The report proposes to use malware to figure out whether or not you are pirating intellectual property and in case you do, lock your computer and take all your files hostage until you call the police and confess your crime.
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Report proposes using malware to combat piracy

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