May 26, 2003

RIAA Pit of Confusion

A kuro5hin author has designed a pure PHP script that can generate a large number of bogus mp3 hosting sites that will cause false positives for RIAA spiders. The morality, technical feasibility, and even logic of setting up such "spider tar-pits" is argued about in a subsequent discussion at the site.

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