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Leaks Prove MediaDefender's Deception

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-lookie-there dept.

Who will defend the defenders? writes "Ars Technica has posted the first installment in their analysis of the leaked MediaDefender emails and found some very interesting things. Apparently, the New York Attorney General's office is working on a big anti-piracy sting and they were working on finding viable targets. It also discusses how some of the emails show MediaDefender trying to spy on their competitors, sanitize their own Wikipedia entry, deal with the hackers targeting their systems, and to quash the MiiVi story even while they were rebuilding it as Viide. Oh yes, they definitely read "techie, geek web sites where everybody already hates us" like Slashdot, too."

8 of 230 comments (clear)

  1. Oh, you moralists by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't despair!

  2. Re:MiiVi? Viide? by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Chinese Nintendo ripoffs.

  3. Re:A lesson from this episode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    And I mean on a meaningful level, not anecdotally Please don't take that away from us. This is Slashdot, and anecdotal evidence is all we have. That and Wikipedia articles that contain anecdotal evidence.
  4. Re:Journamalism 101 by complete+loony · · Score: 1, Funny

    News flash, it's a summary. If you want journalism go read the article, unless it was posted by Roland P. of course.

    --
    09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
  5. MiiVi would be such a cool name... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    MiiVi would be such a cool name for a text editor. Especially if it ran on Nintendo consoles.

  6. viide.com by zerocool^ · · Score: 4, Funny
    Well, they haven't learned anything, their new miivi replacement site, www.viide.com, which isn't live yet, has the following whois credentials:

    Registrant:
      MediaDefender, Inc.
      11965 Venice
      Venice, CA 90066
      US
      310-306-9110
     
    Domain Name: VIIDE.COM
     
    Administrative Contact:
      Saaf, Randy info@mediadefender.com
      11965 Venice
      Venice, CA 90066
      US
      310-306-9110
     
    Technical Contact:
      Saaf, Randy info@mediadefender.com
      11965 Venice
      Venice, CA 90066
      US
      310-306-9110
     
    Record last updated 07-17-2007 03:10:09 PM
    Record expires on 02-07-2008
    Record created on 02-07-2007
     
    Domain servers in listed order:
            NS0.DIRECTNIC.COM 69.46.233.245
            NS1.DIRECTNIC.COM 69.46.234.245
    --
    sig?
  7. Re:Totally Unprofessional by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And to that point - it is their JOB to surf porn at work, to seek out child porn and notify the DoJ and the New York Attorney General's office of the material so that the AG could pursue the offender as part of their own investigation.
    In other words, a pedo's dream job.
  8. Re:there are more leaks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    there are more leaks!

    MediaDefender Phone Call and Gnutella Tracking Database Leaked

    The real news: People use Gnutella.