Yesterday’s announcement by the US Department of Justice that the operators of file-sharing site Megaupload had been indicted for operating a criminal enterprise that generated over $175 million by trafficking in over half a billion dollars of pirated copyrighted material has sent shockwaves across the Internet.  The accuracy of those figures may be questionable, but

Apparently France has some new legislation surrounding pirated software. I applaud reasonable approaches to combating piracy, but it appears that France may be ready to make public the answer to the question “Will Anti-virus ignore government Trojan horse programs?” I first saw the story at http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/08/05/152255/Tech-Specs-Leaked-For-French-Spyware and the story was picked up from http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100804/04205910492.shtml. If