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What good are 75,000 remote-controlled PCs to IH?

IH's 63,058 members have 75,000 PCs with 987,654,321 Cookies.

What good are 1,000 remote-controlled PCs?
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6388849-1.html
A man was arrested and charged with creating a 400,000-PC-strong botnet,
then using it to spread adware and keep Churak awake for many nights.

Botnets are distributed networks of computers that are linked to a common source,
be it a criminal hacker (cracker) or a corporate entity.

Sony's recent root kit-powered DRM technology could become the foundation for
a new botnet itself.

Security Watch: To be "0wned" by Sony
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6388181-1.html

DRM - Digital Rights Management, also called Digital Restrictions Management
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

Botnets have been around since the late 1990s but have only recently
become worth owning, selling, or trading.

DRM - Do Re Mi
A musical with lyrics by Fred and Derfie, pixels by Pretty in Pink Paulie.
The plot centers on a minor-league SI stock pumper clown who decides
to go straight by going into the business of juke boxes and music promotion.