P2P File Sharing News Comments 2006-11-03 - non-RIAA
They were aressting people and all too. Oh well for the RIAA.
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Starfish seems like a cool analagy for open source P2P file sharing. I originally thought of scurrying, rapidly reproducing cockroaches as the analogy of open source P2P file sharing. Fully regenerative starfish is just as cool. And the GPL V2 was made up in 1992!! The cockroaches and starfish is only half of it though. The non-profit tendancy of open-source exploits the ultimate loophole of tort law - No money or assets to take in the first place!
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If you arn’t looking for standalone cracks, watching the file size is plenty sufficient to avoid malware. Legit standalone cracks (NOCD Cracks, keygens, PatchCracks) is often the same size as the malware, and virus scanners often don’t pick it up, even with up to date definitions, so you have to be careful when downloading these. Malware labeled as Sims2 No-CD Cracks has a particularly bad infestation of false-labelled malware.
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Uploaders are usually targeted for lawsuits and prosecutions, hence the appeal. Unfortunately, the target should be ‘long term seeders’ and ‘releasers’, as every non-harmful Emule and BitTorrent user is an uploader because of the swarming / sharing of completed chunks of an incompletly downloaded file.
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The BitTorrent in GetRight works well. Should work well in LimeWire also.
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Usenet is joining the bandwagon of encryption and obfuscation!
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“So how does a tax return document become indexed on, for example, the Gnutella network?” I agree with Slyck as one of the possibilities - Stupid, but generous users who just blanket-share their whole hard drives. There also could be malware that works like Antinny. This is the least probable, but AntInny worked well with the Whinny P2P client as it could interact with out out-of-process and randomly mark folders for sharing. There is also much malware that is distrubuted as fakes on the P2P networks, which mostly only stupid users would get as it is often detectable by the woefully small file size. Gnutella-fake spread spyware, once run, would independently scan for passwords and confidential docs and ship them to its master. Trajan/Spyware fakes are spread on BitTorrent and Edonkey (Emule) as well. The big archives are often clean, but their is no gaurentee - their are noob groups and individuals releasing files too. Looking for NoCD cracks is often a different story as they are usually in the same size-range as the malware.
