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."

Comments

Oh please DMCA this...

[BlueParrot]

Ok, normally I don't like the DMCA, but PLEASE , come on Media Defender, do DMCA this. Pretty please, with sugar on the top... you know you want to... I mean you have to beat your own incompetence somehow...

Re:Oh please DMCA this...

[Esion Modnar]

This is so good. It's like reporting your stash of marijuana stolen to the police. To DMCA it is to validate its contents. All they can do is claim ignorance and say it's all a hoax.

Re:Oh please DMCA this...

[MooUK]

Someone keep an eye on TPB's legal threats page - hopefully we'll have plenty of entertainment!

I wonder who did it

[unity100]

If it is a long hair working as a code grunt/sysadmin in their it lot, may god make his/her hair glitter with sunshine and rustle in gentle, warm winds.

Re:I wonder who did it

[c]

Nice. Real subtle. While you're at it, why not ask god to slap an "I did it!" tattoo on their forehead, too.

c.

Oh man it hurts.

[kwabbles]

I can't stop laughing. Oh hoh... my stomach. LOL

Inflation

[athdemo]

I thought these two were some of the best.

>From: Watson, Jeff (WBR)
>To: Octavio Herrera; leaks
>Cc: Bird, Jennifer
>Sent: Sun May 13 10:49:59 2007
>Subject: Re: # LP illegal album downloads

>MediaDefender folks - please let us know roughly how many Linkin Park albums have been downloaded since the leak. Album is called Minutes To Midnight. Thanks.

>From: "Octavio Herrera" >
>To: "torrents"
>Cc: "Gilberto Vargas" >, "Ben Grodsky" >, "Rick Moreno" >
>Subject: Fw: # LP illegal album downloads
>Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 15:24:59 -0700

>Torrent team, can you give us a sense of how many dowloads of tis album there has been off bt. We are not protecting on bt so the bigger the better.

I really hope Warner reads this gold.

Re:Inflation

[Jugalator]

I nominate this one:

Dylan,

I wouldn't normally e-mail you directly about MiiVi stuff, because a lot of what I say about this is total crap (so keep that in mind) and Jay filters the crap from the important stuff for you. Is there a way to add this hash/title to the porn filter explicitly?

hash=30755326A4E4B28E678BFF8CB2AF5FC4A4FBF710&i=3 (the title is Celebrity deathmatch: Korn vs slipknot and the exact URL is http://129.47.9.160/zonie/media.php?hash=30755326A4E4B28E678BFF8CB2AF5FC4A4FBF710&i=3)

I just flagged it as Other Terms of Use violation. It's a warthog (or maybe it's a big bushy dog, I can't tell) having sex with a woman and NOT a Korn vs. Slipknot mash-up video.

If this is a big deal, don't worry about it for now. But eventually this would probably need a tool of some kind for a Super User account to remove files from our indexing system all together. Seriously, since I know they also read Slashdot, and definitely this story: Find a new career where you can be constructive rather than destructive, and where it's not just a completely futile battle, for fuck's sake. Wouldn't you feel better about that, than helping out media companies with a flawed business model? Quotes like the one I did above is just sad. When you get to stumble upon animal porn while you work to solve an inheretly flawed business model in the "digital millenium", you know you're just plain losers. Wow.

Re:Inflation

[Jugalator]

NO WAIT. Oh my lord, this one is even better. There was a follow up, and this time I'll just include the headers. Disgusting! :-X

-----Original Message-----
From: "Ben Grodsky"
To: "Jay Mairs" ; "Dylan Douglas"
Sent: 5/11/07 10:39 AM
Subject: RE: naughty miivi hash for filter

it's the first bestiality vid i've gotten that didn't have any porn or bestiality key words.

i'm not offended by bestiality in the least and actually have seen a few of the horse and dog fucking videos already :p

cool. no worries though. it just freaks me out when key words couldn't do anything at all.

*Wanted* "Noise" Spoofing Files

[none295]

Hello, my name is %20 and I collect interdicting spoofing noise files created by entities like Overpeer and MediaDefender. They are important 'art' objects which are in dire need of preservation. I had thought the methods and products died out when Overpeer went kaputz, but there are several e-mails in this collection which revive my search and preservation of these outstanding works of questionable merit. So if you happen to get a files from these folks which seems a little off, read this blog: http://noneinc.com/RIAAEM/RIAABlog.html and we'll host them for everyone to enjoy.

TIA!
%20

Student lawsuits...

[BlueParrot]

From: Randy Saaf
        Sent: Wed 11-Apr-07 21:24
        To: Jay Mairs; Ben Grodsky; Ty Heath; Ivan Kwok; Ben Ebert
        Subject: Fw: .edu filtering

        Team

        Universal is curiouse if we have any historical data over the last 3 months that show whether .edu IP addresses on p2p have gone down.

        They want to see if their lawsuits are getting students to stop using p2p (take a moment to laugh to yourself).

        Let me know if anyone has any ideas.

        R

        --- Original Message ---
        From: Benjamin, David
        To: Randy Saaf
        Sent: Wed Apr 11 18:11:50 2007
        Subject: .edu filtering

        How are you doing with this?
        Thanks
        db

Re:Torrent or it didn't happen

[erroneus]

Nothing like the slashdot effect to boost the speed of a torrent!

Re:OH RLY?

[budgenator]

"Hey why am i only making $55K and that dipshit Solanki is getting 65?" OOPs I forsee trouble in paradise.

Re:this is in the wild now

[iluvcapra]

one of still pretty credible news outlets.

Does anybody know how to submit it to them?

You can't submit to them, that's why they're credible :P.

How to open the .mbox file from the torrents?

[samwh]

I see a .mbox file... how do I open it?

Re:Hahahaha, no.

[bladesjester]

Yeah, which is a more distasteful way of dying, sword or bullet?

Being crushed to death under a really fat guy :P

Re:Hahahaha, no.

[robbiethefett]

I'm betting right now there's a lot of employees of MediaDefender on the phone with their banks right now trying to find out why they bought several boats, cars, etc. in Russia, China, and god knows where else..

Re:Torrent or it didn't happen

[Goldberg's Pants]

Some interesting stuff in these emails.

in front of Bobby, Brad, Joe and Joe's infamous candy
bucket, there are a couple dozen CDs and DVDs totally up for grabs.
There's some pop, rock, rap, r&b, and more. It's totally free, so
help yourselves.

Gee, I'm sure THOSE didn't come from their corporate paymasters at the RIAA...

Re:Torrent or it didn't happen

[Jugalator]

This really goes without saying, as it is expected from people like them. Still it is unexcusable, what I found... They top-post on e-mails.

Re:What's interesting about that (to me) is...

[Jugalator]

what's up with Google apparently not stopping this in one way or another That's because Google doesn't do evil, even in this case. ;-)

Re:Hahahaha, no.

[dreddnott]

Being crushed to death under a really fat guy :P

Does there have to be a CowboyNeal option in every poll?

Re:So, hypothetically...

[scoot80]

Set up an internet account in their name and start downloading music and movies?.. From.. FreakTorrent?