Criminals try to 'copyright' malware

April 30, 2008 By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Even criminal hackers want to protect their intellectual property, and they've come up with a method akin to copyrighting - with an appropriate dash of Internet thuggery thrown in.

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