MediaDefender Leaked E-mails

reeltoreel

Well-known member
Have you guys caught up on this yet?

From www.publicaddress.net

Meanwhile, geeks are buzzing over an extraordinary leak: six months' worth of internal emails from a company called MediaDefender, running to more than 6000 messages. MediaDefender works for major copyright interests, including the Recording Industry Association of America, providing intelligence on the scale and content of P2P traffic. And, with its black hat on, it creates fake torrent sites and broken torrent files to dissuade and frustrate users.

It appears that one MediaDefender employee created a Gmail account, to which he automatically forwarded all his company email. He then went and signed up to a P2P torrent using that Gmail address and the same password he used for his Gmail. He connected to the forum from an IP address the owners knew was associated with MediaDefender. Shit happened.

This isn't unambiguous. There are, after all, obvious and massive copyright breaches at the centre of this. The leak puts all the company's employees at risk of ill-judged retribution: the emails included spreadsheet attachments that contain personal information.

But the emails are out there now -- available, ironically, as a torrent. They confirm that MediaDefender was in fact carrying out "honeypot" and entrapment activities that it had told journalists it had no part in (link below).

Excerpts in this extensive discussion on Slashdot (link below) will doubtless be of interest to MediaDefender clients who want to know what the company really thinks of them. And, basically, the company's entire strategy is now out in the wild -- someone has even helpfully set up a threaded HTML interface to them. It's all incredibly interesting -- unless, of course, you happen to be involved.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...pment-accusations-with-fake-torrent-site.html

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/09/15/1843234.shtml

Threaded HTML Interface - http://jrwr.hopto.org/
 

mms

sometimes
it's no suprise and i don't really blame them, even though it's illegal it's not that far away from the kind of mapping that google do nowdays.
 

Mr. Cheese

Paternal Reassurance
This should be pretty interesting to all you BitTorrent fans:

Here are the results of Torrent testing for 28 weeks later. We are currently just decoying for this project pending some space available due to other high priority projects in interdiction at the moment. We seem to doing ok in roughly 50% of the sites with a fairly decent percentage of our files showing up in the top 15. Torrentspy is not accepting searches from withing the US or Europe, at least according to their site and the other two with a "n/a" result just did not offer up any relevant results to the "28 weeks later" search string

TOP 15 ATTEMPTED

BiteNova 85%
BushTorrent 7%
Fenopy 73%
IsoHunt 93%
Meganova 93%
Mininova 0%
MyBittorrent 0%
PirateBay 0%
TorrentBox 0%
TorrentPortal 93%
TorrentReactor 47%
TorrentSpy n/a
Btjunkie 47%
Btmon 20%
ExtraTorrent 53%
FullDLS 0%
Novatina 85%
Snarf-it 53%
TorrentLocomotive n/a
Torrentz 13%
Underground n/a
WorldNova 87%
Bittorrent.am 53%
FlixFlux 0%
Monova 0%
NewTorrents 0%
TorrentValley 60%
TorrentView 0%
Yotoshi 93%
 
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