Wednesday, 15. January 2003

Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 10:58:17 AM CET

Phony Advisory Attacks RIAA

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.

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