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Old 08-22-05, 04:35 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Howard2k
To be honest if I was a successful developer I'd leak poisoned copies onto the net. I would most likely not go and hard reset people's devices, but I'd have no qualms about leaking non-working versions.

There are other approaches already that will try to ensure that P2P users trying to download copyright material get garbage. I'm sure that this one would work too :) Make a bad copy of the software and spread it over P2P networks.

Anyway, not an accusation and I'm glad you didn't take it that way.
The thing is why infect genuine copies using a dodgy one ? You'd want them to be able to buy the real copy. Sometimes I wonder why we bother. As for accusations, well if we did do it we wouldn't admit to it would we ? That just makes it worse. No win situation. We didn't do it, but then we are bound to say that :realmad:
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