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  Who needs Napster when you have Windows?
Time: 03:53 EST/08:53 GMT | News Source: Salon.com | Posted By: Will2

The courts may be well on their way to killing Napster, but neither the Recording Industry Association of America nor intellectual copyright advocates have any hope against the technology that drives it: peer-to-peer file sharing, the cooperative method of swapping files among computers. So far, file-sharing utilities such as Gnutella and Freenet have been mentioned in the news as alternatives to Napster, but little attention has been paid to the most obvious way to share files -- by exploiting a notorious security hole in the Windows operating system.

The hole is a networking protocol called "NetBIOS," and if you don't know it's there -- or, say, if you've inadvertently instructed it to open your computer to the world (it happens) -- it's more like a gaping maw.

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