Record Industry Releases Malware

IFPI — the international equivalent of the RIAA — has released a piece of software (Digital File Check) that will delete your P2P software, strongly implying that P2P is itself illegal and using ridiculous, non-legal terms like copyright theft. So much for 17,000,000 freely shareable CC-licensed works, so much for the public domain, so much for everything except for content from giant publishing organisations. No word on whether this malware also deletes your web-browser, e-mail client and IM software, since all these, too, are sometimes used to infringe on copyright — via BoingBoing