Source:A company called V.i. Laboratories Inc. is proposing a new approach called CodeArmor Intelligence, which embeds stealth algorithms inside programs that "phone home" with information about the unauthorized usage of software, including their Internet domain and even a company location on a Google Map
EETimes.com - Software pirates pinpointed on Google Map
Since there are services such as sexoffenders.com or spotcrime.com out there, it's no surprise that companies jumped on the train to catch the 'pirates' too. But this leaves many questions unanswered: What further details about the person are collected? Where else will the data about the people be saved? (since the location of the Google servers are unknown) Can those methods be combined with the current data privacy laws? In my opinion, this is a really questionable approach of identifying copyright infringements...
Do you feel the same? Or what are your opinions on that controversial topic?
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