Here’s one from the Don’t Believe Everything You Read Department.
The Register credulously reports that an anonymous group called “Gobbles” was hired by the RIAA to create and release a worm that infects peer-to-peer networks. The story says that 95% of peer-to-peer connected hosts are infected, and that the worm reports back the contents of infected computers to the RIAA. The story is based on a Bugtraq posting.
If this were true it would be an outrage. But it is almost certainly a hoax. The story is pretty thinly sourced. More to the point, there’s just no way the RIAA could be dumb enough to try a stunt like this. I would have thought the Register was too smart to fall for this kind of tall tale.
