Infuriated by file sharing programs that supposedly make musicians like Metallica take to begging bowls and encouraged by the ruling against Kazaa in Australia, the IFPI, a British music industry conglomerate akin to the RIAA, has launched an anti music-swapping tool that searches for file sharing programs on your hard drive and then proceeds to delete them. The conglomerate has further called upon all the world's offices and colleges to run this tool on PCs in their premises so as to ' increase efficiency by preventing workers from wasting time downloading music' and protecting copyrighted music at the same time. You can test-drive the program here, its called Digital File Check.
Now don't tell me these people can afford to write bad software, because on my pc, which has both WinMX and Ares P2P clients, it fails to locate any of them!
Now just to be sure the files were not protected and all this was not a surreal abberation, I copied the P2P program files to several locations on my hard drive and ran Digital File Check again in a rather uneducated but rational-sounding attempt to help it trap the P2P devils but to no happiness.
Any takers for this software... whatsay, Pointy Haired Boss?
Friday, September 23, 2005
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3 comments:
I think the tool just removes the apps that have been reprimanded by the courts.
Is it really going to work? Can't people just keep coming out with newer P2P software.. and can they really do that.. I mean delete something from your hard disk without your permission..
Hahahaha...Apurv you have WAAYYY too much free time
Abhijit (yes, the same one)
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