The price of file-sharing

You don't get nuffing for nuffing and when you download a PC-based file-sharing program such as Kazaa or eDonkey you're buying into a whole lot of trouble. According to one researcher, you're expected to read up to 22,000 words of a licence agreement when installing a typical P2P app.

And nobody reads the first 50 words, never mind the next 20,000, right? Unfortunately, as the research points out, you're typically agreeing to the installation of half a dozen extras, at least some of which is spyware.

Think twice the next time you go looking for some freebies.