kgb used our newssubmit to tell us about software that the IFPI seems to be using to monitor file sharing networks:
The software, known as "Media Tracker" masquerades as a client on any of the file-sharing networks through which Net users have been exchanging copyrighted music, collecting details from other machines on that network and adding it to an infringement database. |
It can also passively monitor IRC chatrooms, newsgroups, interrogate search engines and check ftp sites for offending material.
I don't know if this is really true, they must be pretty stupid to slip this on the web.
Read more by clicking on source link, on the top of this newsposting...
Source: 7amnews.com
