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mikemadman · Jan 12, 2004, 02:08 am

I was just reading about virus's that are spreading through file sharing applications like Kaaza Wired News and realized the perfect way for the music industry to shutdown these services. All they need to do is develope a virus that can attach itself to MP3's and be able to be executed when the MP3 is played. You would of course have to make sure the virus only executes and multiples in the file sharing programs shared folder. Would not want to infect legitimately bought MP3s.

I am not sure what the virus should do. It cannot really be malicious but it would have to do something that would make people stop downloading from these programs for fear of getting infected.

I know once you play the infected MP3 a very annoying but light watermark would be placed on your screen that would say: "I Illegally Downloaded Music". And it would stay there for one week. After this penalty time the virus would clean itself from your system. If you download another MP3 in the future it would do it all over agian. That would be a nice deterent.

This was just a idea I thought of, I for one love Kazaa and have used it ever since it came out. So, it would really suck if someone actually ever did this. The music industry would have to be extremely discreet about it, becuase if the people ever found out, there would be all hell to pay.

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mikemadman Sedimentary Rock Location: SoCal Posts: 17	I was just reading about virus's that are spreading through file sharing applications like Kaaza Wired News and realized the perfect way for the music industry to shutdown these services. All they need to do is develope a virus that can attach itself to MP3's and be able to be executed when the MP3 is played. You would of course have to make sure the virus only executes and multiples in the file sharing programs shared folder. Would not want to infect legitimately bought MP3s. I am not sure what the virus should do. It cannot really be malicious but it would have to do something that would make people stop downloading from these programs for fear of getting infected. I know once you play the infected MP3 a very annoying but light watermark would be placed on your screen that would say: "I Illegally Downloaded Music". And it would stay there for one week. After this penalty time the virus would clean itself from your system. If you download another MP3 in the future it would do it all over agian. That would be a nice deterent. This was just a idea I thought of, I for one love Kazaa and have used it ever since it came out. So, it would really suck if someone actually ever did this. The music industry would have to be extremely discreet about it, becuase if the people ever found out, there would be all hell to pay. Yes, I know I don't know how to spell. What can I say, I was born in the era of spellcheckers.