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MediaDefender and the Streisand Effect
Foldarn writes "It looks like MediaDefender, in an effort to quell the explosion of negative publicity over its leaked email archive, has instead done the opposite (also known as the Streisand Effect) and spread it even more widely. Ars Technica is reporting that MediaDefender has sent scary-lawyer letters to two popular BitTorrent sites, MegaNova and IsoHunt, demanding that they remove the offending content. Both sites have responded with derision. Also, Ars notes that MediaDefender seems to be behind a DDoS attack against the site that originally leaked its email." Final word to Ars's Ryan Paul: "MediaDefender's entire business model has been based on recognition of the inescapable fact that litigation cannot stop the spread of content on the Internet, so it is ironic that the company has turned to legal threats."
...for those of you haven't already downloaded them.
http://thepiratebay.org/search/mediadefender/0/3/0
And the unofficial MediaDefender-Defender website.
http://www.mediadefender-defenders.com/
#MediaDefender-Defenders @ EFNet
There is a new leak now! it is the source code of some of the MD applications in Piratebay.
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giganews news-60.giganews.com gn124059 V3Lrt
easynews news.easynews.com pauldaman ebertsux37
giganews-2 news-60.giganews.com gn58936 J4nCid
easynews-2 news.easynews.com jomama2069 givemesome420
usenetguide news.usenetguide.com Babykillah@usenetguide.com N7xVlE08
uncensorednewsfeed binaries.uncensorednewsfeed.com musicman tacobell
corenews news.corenews.com gde974cn 168umz
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MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked
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It really bothers me when people refer to this policy as "new" as if the U.S. never had things like robber-barons and big-oil-controlled-government. The woes of the industrial revolution are coming back, just in time it seems, since most Americans don't seem to remember high school history class.
Corporations and their umbrellas are the triangle shirtwaste's of our age. Instead of being chained to a sewing machine, we are chained to our electronic devices. Of course they aren't "ours" as we are only leasing the privledge of using them, at least if the corporations have their way.
"Luke, you've switched off your targeting computer, what's wrong?"
I tried to download the torrent, but all I got was a bad rip of Fight Club... This site has everything so far.
Check their emails. What're they protected with? Their e-mail messages are protected by the free version of AVG -- copyrighted software that, for business use, requires a purchase to use. THEY ARE COPYRIGHT INFRINGERS, THEMSELVES! Hypocrites, every last one of them!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
When the e-mails were leaked I called for them to DMCA it as that would effectively confirm the leaked information as authentic while doing nothing to prevent its spread. I sarcastically ended that comment with "you have to outdo your own incompetence somehow". Little did I know they were actually going to be that fucking stupid. There is a reason the military, NRC, CIA etc.. has a policy of never confirming or denying leaks. Doing so would essentially confirm/debunk the accuracy of the leaked information. Good job MD, you just made a mistake most people have known not to do for more than a century. Idiots...