Hi everyone. I have an idea for a virus which could potentially render copyright laws like the DMCA unenforceable. I'm wondering if there's anyone out there with the balls (or ovaries) to implement it!
The idea is to create a file sharing program like Kazaa that is distributed both by "willing user" download, and also as some kind of virus which infects unwilling user's "slave machines".
The advantage is that willing users would be able to download copyrighted content with legally plausible deniability, because authorities wouldn't be able to tell whether the program was installed via infection or willing download.
The key is that the footprint left by the virus and the legit program would have to be indistinguishable. To achieve this, both versions would automatically download random copyrighted content. This way, no one would know whether the copyrighted content had been automatically or manually downloaded.
So if the music industry tried to sue some poor 12 year old girl for downloading Britney Spears music, she could claim she had not done so willingly, and that she was just a victim of the virus.
I've never written any sort of "malicious" code before, so I wouldn't know how to do it. But I thought someone on this forum might like the idea enough to try it. I don't think anything like this has ever been done before.
So how about it? Feel free to post comments. I'm curious whether people think this idea would work, or if anyone knows of a similar project.
The idea is to create a file sharing program like Kazaa that is distributed both by "willing user" download, and also as some kind of virus which infects unwilling user's "slave machines".
The advantage is that willing users would be able to download copyrighted content with legally plausible deniability, because authorities wouldn't be able to tell whether the program was installed via infection or willing download.
The key is that the footprint left by the virus and the legit program would have to be indistinguishable. To achieve this, both versions would automatically download random copyrighted content. This way, no one would know whether the copyrighted content had been automatically or manually downloaded.
So if the music industry tried to sue some poor 12 year old girl for downloading Britney Spears music, she could claim she had not done so willingly, and that she was just a victim of the virus.
I've never written any sort of "malicious" code before, so I wouldn't know how to do it. But I thought someone on this forum might like the idea enough to try it. I don't think anything like this has ever been done before.
So how about it? Feel free to post comments. I'm curious whether people think this idea would work, or if anyone knows of a similar project.
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