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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."

7 of 206 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Torrents... by monk.e.boy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm glad everyone I threatened took down links to my open source project:

    http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/

    The Streisand Effect never affected me!

    (laugh :-D -- for it's both a joke and a poor attempt at promoting my project, which given the reference to the Streisand effect is irony! Get it? Funny eh?)

    (I think I got effect and affect the right way round)

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    Open source, flash charts
  2. Re:"Asstunnel"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like it so much, I've tagged this article with it.

  3. Re:Torrents... by monk.e.boy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Troublegum.

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    Open source, flash charts
  4. Re:"Asstunnel"... by techpawn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm still holding out for "Cock-bite!" but "Ass-Tunnel" has got a nice ring to it too

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  5. I see a new Slashdot meme arising... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All your asstunnel... Um, no. Not that.

    Hot grits and ... Not that either.

    Help me out here!
  6. Did you hear the one about blocked emai? by Erris · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not funny

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    DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
  7. Re:Why are they quoting her? by Aim+Here · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually the relevant Ayn Rand sections are contained in a tedious 60-page monologue near the end of her magnum opus "Asstunnel Shrugged"