What's even more of a joke is that The Register published it, when it was evident from the start that it was never true.
Totally sick of the clueless hyping so-called security news when they don't even know what security is. On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:58:38AM -0800, Shon Elliott wrote: > And from what I know of the problem, the Nullsoft guys already fixed > this bug in Winamp v2.81+. > > The part of this thing that's so funny that people are eating up is the > fact that they were NOT hired by the RIAA to do it. You can see at the > bottom of the original statement, that they even say they're joking, but > the exploit is real, and had nothing to do with the RIAA. RIAA even said > they have nothing to do with it. I wished I had saved the link for the > news.com story, but it's there if you look for it. > [snippage]
