Leaks Prove MediaDefender's Deception

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."

Comments

Re:Journamalism 101

[Anonymous Coward]

as a card carrying geek you should have used bittorent - if ur using that you should be using peerguardian if you look at peerguardian with bittorent running you will see the MediaDefender ip range poking you ever so often and flagging you as a suspect.

Sanitizing Wikipedia is bad?

[Jack9]

sanitize their own Wikipedia entry

This is a feature or Wikipedia, not a revelation. Why would you deride (by inclusion into a list of reprehensible acts) someone for using a tool as intended? It's unfortunate that a reader might be led to believe that sanitizing is an indication of guilt or even malfeasance, when it is not.

//The unpopular viewpoint gets the mod.

Re:Good Time . . .

[speaker of the truth]

Morally, these scumbags gave up any claim to anything a long time ago. Morally, they all deserve to be soundly beaten and left for dead on some island somewhere so they can learn to play nice with each other or starve. Because that's sadly illegal Get some perspective and grow up. They tried to stop people from infringing on someone's copyright and yet you want them to starve on an island. You truly are a sad specimen of the human race.