I think you misread. The announcement says: "Clients which connect to our peer-to-peer clients, and then afterwards attempt to illegally access the network will be immediately blacklisted from Information Wave's network." Note the part about "...then attempt to illegally access the network..." I believe they're saying that they expect the RIAA to find their client and try to attack it. When this happens, they'll ban the attacker (the RIAA). It's a way for them to make sure they're staying on top of the RIAA. - Jared On Tuesday 20 August 2002 03:11 pm, you wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, nate at refried.org wrote: > > The portion of the article I though would be "value add" was the > > honeypot system that they set up to try to find RIAA snoopers. It > > looks for a correspondence between hits in their honeypot to attacks > > on their network. > > How I read it, the honeypot watches for _anyone_ searching for copyrighted > music, and blackholes them from their network. So if an innocent user is > searching for britney_spears-newest_hits.mp3, and tries to grab it, > they'll be blacklisted. Sounded like something to keep RIAA from sueing > them, to me..