> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28842.html
> 
> Is the RIAA "hacking you back"? 
> By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco 
> Posted: 14/01/2003 at 00:29 GMT
> The RIAA is preparing to infect MP3 files in order to audit 
> and eventually disable file swapping, according to a 


Assuming that this is true, even if this initially causes some chaos,
someone will eventually find a simple workaround or the anti-virus
companies will simply create signatures to identify and fix/stop/delete
infected files. This would just be a short term annoyance at best, or
worst case, someone will exploit the code and use it maliciously to
destroy all data on a hard drive. Either way, it will be a short term
problem.  A perfect example was the discovery of using a marker to
defeat the copy protection on copy protected CDs.

Gary

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