Possible new weapons in the anti-piracy war include a 'Trojan Horse' program that redirects users to websites where they can buy the song they were trying to download for free, the Times reported.
Another program locks up a computer systems for minutes to hours and displays a warning against piracy, while a third scans a computer's hard drive for pirated files and deletes them.
how? even if an mp3, ogg, wma, mpg, avi, or any other media file, has executable code embedded in it, the only way it would ever get executed on a computer is if the player has a flaw in it, and that would have to be patched by microsoft, winamp, etc. because it would be one more way for virus writers to spread viruses
the only way would be to do what virus writers normally do on kazaa or any other file sharing program, double the extension, ie, .mp3.vbs, .mp3.exe, etc. , and then they would have to hope that they get antivirus companies corroperation, because anything that locks your computer like that, trojans it, deletes files, etc. is a virus, no matter who makes it
what's to say that if you have personal mp3's of your own work that you made digitally that their software wouldn't tag it as pirated and delete it? i can see a thousand lawsuits now from musicians over stuff like that
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