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Richard Seeker 
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Written by Enigmax & Ernesto When TorrentFreak reported that Media Defender (MD) was behind the video site MiiVi, they cast doubt on us. Now, in what is surely the biggest BitTorrent leak ever, nearly 700mb of MD’s emails have gone public. When MD’s Randy Saaf found out we rumbled MiiVi he said, “This is really fu*ked.” This is too, but much more so. When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and, as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would, we checked and double checked our sources. We said, with some confidence: Media Defender, a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA, RIAA and several independent media production companies, just launched their very own video upload service called “miivi.com”. The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so. However, in comments made to Ars technica, Media Defender’s Randy Saaf chose to rubbish our claims, calling it an ‘accidentally un-secured internal project’. From the emails we cannot be sure that it’s an entrapment site or that it is related to the MPAA (perhaps it’s a legit a P2P video client?), but it does look suspicious. Unfortunately for Media Defender - a company dedicated to mitigating the effects of internet leaks - they can do nothing about being the subject of the biggest BitTorrent leak of all time. Over 700mb of their own internal emails, dating back over 6 months have been leaked to the internet in what will be a devastating blow to the company. Many are very recent, having September 2007 dates and the majority involve the most senior people in the company. Apparently this is not the first time that a MediaDefender email leaked onto the Internet. According to the .nfo file posted with the Mbox file the emails were obtained by a group called “MediaDefender-Defenders”. It states: “By releasing these emails we hope to secure the privacy and personal integrity of all peer-to-peer users. The emails contains information about the various tactics and technical solutions for tracking p2p users, and disrupt p2p services,” and “A special thanks to Jay Maris, for circumventing there entire email-security by forwarding all your emails to your gmail account” Note: The mbox formatted file is circulating publicly on BitTorrent, completely unedited. However, for publication here we have removed the username and password logins for Media Defender’s servers, and replaced them with asterisks and avoided publishing emails of a personal nature, e.g pay negotiations etc. We believe that the emails are the real deal and all the info posted here serves the public interest. At first we couldn’t believe that it was real, but after we scanned through the e-mails it became clear that it was indeed the real deal. Hundreds of IPs and logins to their servers, lists of their decoy/entrapment trackers, decoy strategies, the effectiveness of their fake torrents (in many cases with a breakdown of success, title specific), high and low priority sites, .torrent watchlists, information on their monitoring of competitors, pictures of their weekend trips and even the anti-piracy strategy for dealing with The Simpsons Movie leak: Read the rest here http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-emails-leaked-070915/
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Get Boldened Hyperspace Warrior
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I couldn't find an entry on miiVi in the Internet Archives, but I did find from a credible .edu website that Randy Saaf, the president of MediaDefender who owns miiVi, was interested in research efforts to prevent piracy: http://bulletin.hmc.edu/archives/2005/Summer05/randy_saaf98.html So why would he manage a website that lets you download "hot movies"? That goes against his personal beliefs. He made that website to entrap people. Look at what he said: “The easiest way to disrupt a mass distribution system is to put out a lot of phony files,” Saaf said. “You create decoys. We do this on a massive scale with our own proprietary software. That’s one of a suite of technologies that we provide.” He provides that "suite of technologies" (a service) to companies like RIAA and MPAA who are interested. I think it's just convenient that he said the website wasn't meant for public viewing when it was functional enough to look legit in the first place. (http://www.crunchgear.com/?tag=mediadefender) In any case, only uploaders could be sued. The court would have to prove that the downloaders know what they downloaded were illegal. Note: I'm not endorsing illegal downloads. I just have a fascination with this story. Last edited on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 06:53 pm by Get Boldened |
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Richard Seeker
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Here’s a funny update to the story. MediaDefender Damage Control: Cease and Desist! Posted on Tue 18 Sep 2007, 10:08:39 by Markus After the big leak of last week, today mediadefender is desperately trying to establish some level of damage control. This morning we received an email from their lawyers stating that the domain registrar should hand over our personal information. So here is an open letter to MediaDefender. Dearest little asstunnels, Let me start of by thanking you for your pitiful attempt to have your emails removed from the entire internet (the thing that says www.). In no way we feel obligated to fulfill your request, as a matter of fact any organization that tries to harm this site and the bittorrent user in general can expect nothing more from us but a big fu*k you! In case you haven't noticed, this site is located in Europe (I hope you can point it out on a map) where your stupid copyright claims have no base. But fair is fair you guys did suffer over the past week so here's bit of advice to you guys:
Have a very nice day, Markus http://www.meganova.org/sitenews/article/18.html
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