'We know who you are' - RIAA spams IM users
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 30/04/2003 at 00:38 GMT
Rattled by last week's Grokster ruling, the RIAA has stepped up its psyops by spamming IM users with warning messages.
The messages are sprayed around the file sharing networks using the built-in chat function. One ominous message is intended to give the impression that the Pigopolists' Police are watching your every move:-
[You] "are not anonymous and you can easily be identified."
Source - http://www.theregister.com/content/6/30461.html