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MediaDefender and the Streisand Effect

Posted by kdawson on from the making-it-ever-so-much-worse dept.

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."

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  1. Torrents... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...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

  2. New leak! by xtracto · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a new leak now! it is the source code of some of the MD applications in Piratebay.

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    Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
  3. MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked by wwmedia · · Score: 5, Informative

    just in

    MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Screw the source code! by Khyber · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

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    1. Re:Screw the source code! by fafalone · · Score: 4, Informative

      They steal source code too, example:

      MovieMakerModule.cpp Line 497: // Stolen code, begin
      Line 560: // Stolen code - end

      If you're going to steal code, it's not a good idea to put in comments announcing it's stolen. Of course scumbag crap is what they're about, so they probably are just fine with copy/pasting code.