Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked

qubezz writes "The company MediaDefender works with the RIAA and MPAA against piracy, setting up fake torrents and trackers and disrupting p2p traffic. Previously, the TorrentFreak site accused them of setting up a fake internet video download site designed to catch and bust users. MediaDefender denied the entrapment charges. Now 700MB of MediaDefender's internal emails from the last 6 months have been leaked onto BitTorrent trackers. The emails detail their entire plan, including how they intended to distance themselves from the fake company they set up and future strategies. Other pieces of company information were included in the emails such as logins and passwords, wage negotiations, and numerous other aspect of their internal business."

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"Freedom" fighters.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Now 700MB of MediaDefender's internal emails from the last 6 months have been leaked onto BitTorrent trackers. The emails detail their entire plan, including how they intended to distance themselves from the fake company they set up and future strategies. Other pieces of company information were included in the emails such as logins and passwords, wage negotiations, and numerous other aspect of their internal business.""

I'm certain Slashdot is going to have a field day with this, and I'm not a big fan of the approach the RIAA/MPAA are using. However with that being said. The fact that someone leaked all the above simply shows why you should be careful with trusting the present generation. I'll save you from a trip down memory lane as far as slashdot attitudes towards their fellow men are concerned. But I said it once and I'll say it again. I'll NEVER hire someone from this forum. Today it's this company. Tomorrow it could be somone else with a "bee up it's bonnet" employee, and there will be only the "court of slashopinion" to judge the case.

This is NOT good news

[Torodung]

As much as I might dislike the methods this company was allegedly going to employ against a bunch of people who are breaking the law, I don't think that a smaller, hard-core subset of that group of lawbreakers further breaking the law, by cracking their way into the corporation's emails and violating their privacy, is something to cheer about.

I don't believe anyone on /. should be jumping for joy at the hacking of a gmail account. I know a lot of people with gmail accounts. So do you.

Let's all be consistent in affirming that black hat behavior, for criminal ends, is wrong, no matter who the target is.

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Toro

Re:Hahahaha, no.

[speaker of the truth]

Do not try and entrap the torrent community, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Given the context of this statement I can't see how you could mean it to be anything but that.