p2p news / p2pnet: There’s an interesting first-time addition to this year’s silicon.com Agenda Setters Top 50.

Organized Crime came in at #17 and, "If you think hackers are spotty kids sitting in their mums’ basements, think again," says the site.

For some reason, the Organized Music crime gang, Sony BMG (of course), Vivendi Universal, Warner Music and EMI, didn’t make it. But who knows: maybe next year?

Meanwhile, "It’s organised criminals who want your PC," according to silicon.com. "These are the people hiring individuals to infect as many PCs as possible and exploiting the networks of infected PCs to send spam, phishing scams, spyware and Trojans capable of creating even more infected PCs. They are also using them to launch denial of service attacks against businesses large and small. And when they aren’t using them they are renting them out for use by similarly unscrupulous individuals.

"Organised crime represents the biggest security threat on the horizon, and for this it makes our Agenda Setters list. The degree to which criminal activity has raised the bar in terms of risk means governments and international law enforcement bodies are taking it very seriously."

Here’s the Top Ten list:

1 Eric Schmidt
2 Steve Jobs
3 Ashley Highfield
4 Niklas Zennström
5 Sam Palmisano
6 Wen Jiabao
7 Kun-Hee Lee
8 Rupert Murdoch
9 Richard Segal
10 Ed Zander

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