Trojan wars.

Sony SONY Standard Oil of New York (common, but untrue; it's an urban legend) tries to protect its music from unauthorized duplication duplication /du·pli·ca·tion/ (doo-pli-ka´shun)
1. the act or process of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

2. by secretly infecting buyers' PCs with Trojan horse See Trojan.

Trojan Horse

hollow horse concealed soldiers, enabling them to enter and capture Troy. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad]

See : Deceit

(application, security) Trojan horse software. The company issues a recall but is slow to react to the security breach its software caused.

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Title Annotation:	Sony use trojan horse software to track piracy
Author:	Taylor, Jeff A.
Publication:	Reason
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	9JAPA
Date:	Feb 1, 2006
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