According to an article posted at dslreports.com (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/US-Attorney-General-Says-Piracy-Leads-to-Terrorism-93129)

THe US Attorney General ='s Software piracy to terrorism. I think Sony/BMG are terrorists. 

Hell look at how they attempted to infect and control every ones PC a few years ago with their own ROOTKIT. 

-- Portion of the article --

United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey gave a short speech this week in Silicon Valley in which he equated piracy with terrorism. He spoke about the rise of IP crimes and the need for our country to protect ourselves from foreign threats by cracking down on these crimes.

Here's a fun exercise:

Extract wmpaud?.wav files (9 in all) from your retail Windows XP CD. Actually, you can find them in your Windows directory already, but it's more authentic from the CD. Open any of them in your favorite hex editor. Scroll to the end of the file. See "Deepz0ne"? Deepz0ne was (is?) a member of Radium, a well-known warez group (or it used to be, anyway. For all I know they all joined Al-Qa'ida years ago and got killed in Tora Bora). The string was attached to all files created by a copy of Sound Forge distributed by said group. The presence of this string on a CD distributed by Microsoft may or may not mean something...

Any way EFF and some such got involved, helped sue living crap of them, which more importantly could get the issue to the kind of media read by government(s) types?

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