RIAA wants to seed P2P networks with viruses

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-05-04 06:51pm

Gil Hamilton wrote:
Durandal wrote:Normal pings won't do it. You need to continually ping with large packet sizes, which means broadband. Back in the day, one of my friends was pissing my off over AOL IM. He had 56k. I had cable. My justice was swift and terrible.
I don't know if it is true or not, but I've heard someone say that they've sent a 2 gig packet to a 56k modem once, which utterly destroyed the modem.

There's no way any ISP would let a packet that size get out. Hell, it'd take days just for the person sending the packet to complete the upload.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-05-04 06:52pm

Crayz9000 wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:What does the 'Pint' command do?
LOL!

I just pasted it from that guy's post on Slashdot. Just change that 't' to a 'g' and you're set.

Oh.

That made me feel like a N00b.

ROTFLMMFGDQQAO!!!

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-05-04 06:53pm

Why is this in politics?

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-05-04 06:54pm

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Could someone fix0r that pic? Itsa no worka. LOL

The code is correct, the problem is elsewhere~CO

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-05-04 06:59pm

Colonel Olrik wrote: Why is this in politics?

Because it has to do with politics and law ... or it did, originally.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-05-04 07:06pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:/\
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Could someone fix0r that pic? Itsa no worka. LOL

The code is correct, the problem is elsewhere~CO

Capitalize the T in typodemons.

Daltonator's server is case sensitive.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-05-04 07:09pm

It's not just daltonator.net. The case-sensitive thing actually applies to all Apache servers on *nix, because *nix is case-sensitive.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-05-04 07:15pm

Crayz9000 wrote:It's not just daltonator.net. The case-sensitive thing actually applies to all Apache servers on *nix, because *nix is case-sensitive.

It's possible to make a *nix webserver that can use a regexp to ignore case. Doesn't Zeus do it?

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-05-04 07:16pm

Oh ok...

And to continue the spirit of the Thread Hijack, heres more VBS Source Code!!

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' All Your Base
' 
' By Einhander Sn0m4n

wscript.Echo ("KABOOM!!!")
wscript.Echo ("HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN !!")
wscript.Echo ("ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US !!")
wscript.Echo ("YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME !!")
wscript.Echo ("HA HA HA !!")

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' All Your Base (Virus Warning edition)
' 
' By Einhander Sn0m4n
'
' X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

wscript.Echo ("KABOOM!!!")
wscript.Echo ("HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN !!")
wscript.Echo ("ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US !!")
wscript.Echo ("YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME !!")
wscript.Echo ("HA HA HA !!")

This one's designed to cause antivirus programs to scream 'AAAGGHH!!! VIRUS!!!!! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT!!!' because of the 'EICAR-Antivirus-test-file' bit.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-05-04 07:18pm

*runs off to test code in Norton AV*

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-05-04 07:20pm

Hmm, nope, doesn't read as a virus. Try a little harder.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-05-04 07:29pm

Crayz9000 wrote:Hmm, nope, doesn't read as a virus. Try a little harder.

Scheisse...

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2003-05-04 08:09pm

Durandal wrote:You'll simply be extradited here and thrown in jail. Just ask the poor guy who wanted to write a Linux DVD player.

Fixed quoting
-Durandal

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2003-05-04 08:10pm

Argh, damn quotes!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-05-05 12:35am

Crayz9000 wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:They need to find exploits in media software. Windows Media Player had some very serious exploits for a while that would allow an MP3-embedded virus to execute.
However, Winamp didn't have that problem, and it is far more popular that any version of WMP. Or RealPlayer, for that matter. Or XMMS...

The first release build of Winamp 2.81 actually had this exploit. It was promptly patched, though Nullsoft didn't change the version number.

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2003-05-05 06:56am

Durandal wrote:
You'll simply be extradited here and thrown in jail. Just ask the poor guy who wanted to write a Linux DVD player.

Wont work in NZ

to be extradited I would have to have broken US law in the US. In short, they can kiss my hairy white ass.

Soulman · Post by **Soulman** » 2003-05-05 10:15am

Stuart Mackey wrote:
Durandal wrote:
You'll simply be extradited here and thrown in jail. Just ask the poor guy who wanted to write a Linux DVD player.
Wont work in NZ to be extradited I would have to have broken US law in the US. In short, they can kiss my hairy white ass.

And then you sue the fuckers...

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-05-05 10:21am

Stuart Mackey wrote:Wont work in NZ to be extradited I would have to have broken US law in the US. In short, they can kiss my hairy white ass.

Don't be so sure. That's also true of Finland, and it didn't stop them there. You'd be surprised how easily a foreign government will buckle to US State Department pressure and sabre-rattling.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-05-05 11:58am

Yet amazingly neither side in this debate fails to realise that for a small drop in price this wouldn't be a problem. Over here in the UK a CD now costs £15-£17. If they droped that to an even £10 i'd never download a full album again. I'm happy to pay for things if i know i'm getting my money's worth. I cna easily pirate PC games but i don't because PC games are reasonably priced and i know they aren't sinking their claws in too much. The RIAA are in denial of these facts because they'd rather catch they happy sacks in their zipper than admit defeat and lower their profits.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-05-05 03:33pm

You know what all this shit reminds me of? It reminds me of blacksmiths, buggy whip manufacturers, and stable operators banding together to pass laws requiring car drivers to send up rockets to warn oncoming traffic of their approach and forcing them to pull completely off the road and hide their cars when horses approached. They're fighting to save an industry that's getting pulverized by new technology. In my opinion, it's a hopeless fight--they're only waging a scorched-earth campaign against their own customers trying to slow down the inevitable collapse. Wait until the big media conglomerates start spinning off their music divisions to leave the record companies to live or die on their own. Buy a tub of popcorn and a subscription to the Wall Street Journal when that happens and watch these bastards get thrown out on their greedy, worthless asses.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-05-05 03:39pm

RedImperator wrote:You know what all this shit reminds me of? It reminds me of blacksmiths, buggy whip manufacturers, and stable operators banding together to pass laws requiring car drivers to send up rockets to warn oncoming traffic of their approach and forcing them to pull completely off the road and hide their cars when horses approached. They're fighting to save an industry that's getting pulverized by new technology. In my opinion, it's a hopeless fight--they're only waging a scorched-earth campaign against their own customers trying to slow down the inevitable collapse. Wait until the big media conglomerates start spinning off their music divisions to leave the record companies to live or die on their own. Buy a tub of popcorn and a subscription to the Wall Street Journal when that happens and watch these bastards get thrown out on their greedy, worthless asses.

I couldn't agree more, but they're going to hurt an awful lot of people and perhaps seriously cripple the entire computer industry on their way down if people don't stop them. Resistance is necessary.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-05-05 04:01pm

Darth Wong wrote:I couldn't agree more, but they're going to hurt an awful lot of people and perhaps seriously cripple the entire computer industry on their way down if people don't stop them. Resistance is necessary.

Oh, absolutely. What worries me most is that these assclowns are establishing a terrible precedent. 19th century robber-barons used money and legislative influence to get laws favorable to them passed, but Rockerfeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Pullman, and the rest never tried to get the government to suspend constitutional rights to protect their industries--and oil, steel, finance, and railroads were and are a hell of a lot more important than music. Part of the problem is a technology gap between the people making the laws and the people the laws are targeted against--twenty years from now Congress is going to be full of people who grew up around computers and will understand the implications of laws like what the RIAA would like to pass, but twenty years is plenty of time for legislative fuckery that needs to be fought right now. I could get on my soapbox now about my generation's apathetic attitude towards politics allowing politcians and lobbysits to ride roughshod over our rights (See my frequent ranting on drug prohibition for more detail), but I have a Roman Empire exam in 30 minutes.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-05-05 07:27pm

Wow, it's been a whole 24 hours, and the RIAA is still down...

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2003-05-05 07:33pm

No, wait, their website is still up...

I think my ISP is blocking it, it stops responding from the first hop...

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2003-05-05 11:20pm

I swear, the RIAA is fucking stupid. I am watching a program on CNBC right now and OMG they are saying the DUMBEST things ever.

The CEO of Gorkster (who was sued by the RIAA for pirating even though they did no such thing) stated that Napster at its height had 80 million users. If just half of them were willing to pay 10 dollars a month for unlimited access to the entire music collection from the combined RIAA inventories, that would be 400 MILLION dollars a month. Thats 4.8 billion dollars a year. When asked about this and the possibility of people paying 10 dollars a month for unlimited access to a massive collection, the RIAA's reply was "We don't reward pirating. That system just wouldn't work".

HELLO!!! FOUR POINT EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!! That is REWARDING people who download? Shit, CD sales would hardly drop, they might even climb. This would give really freaking massive profits to the RIAA, and they fucking call it supporting pirating. OMFG the RIAA is stupid.