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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."
He who lives by the sword, dies by the questionable business model.
Meta will eat itself
Well maybe someone should turn them in to the FBI for violating federal computer crime statutes.
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...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
They use DDoS attacks against P2P and now, apparently, other sites as well. That puts them at odds with federal computer crime statutes. What do you think?
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censorship is not possible on P2P. speaking of mediadefender, if they do in fact execute DDOS attacks, they are breaking more rules than they are trying to protect.
Not much by the looks of it. I doubt he could find his asshole with both hands.
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Regardless, companies should know by now that any attempt to censor or remove (in particular, by the means of cease-and-desist letters) information will backfire, bigtime.
You can't argue this was intentional, either, because MediaDefender is just drawing bad press to themselves.
This game will waste your life. Don't clicky!
"They are squeezing the cheeks after the asstunnel has..."
... evacuated?
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Ironic that MAFIAADefenders business model is based on stopping content leaking out onto P2P networks.
When they can't even stop their own internal emails and phone calls from leaking you'd have to be pretty gullible to believe their claims. To make matters worse they resort to legal nasty grams and censorship to try and suppress the evidence of their incompetence which makes them look all the more the fool.
To really put the cherry on the cake they're now resorting to illegal DDOS attacks, which for the most part have also failed.
If they were in any other business it would already be over for them, sadly for us, fortunately for them their clients are just the sort of gullible people who will keep doing business because they can't face the real truth. Their business model has failed.
Sadly we haven't heard the last of MAFIAADefender.
s/asshole/asstunnel/
There is a new leak now! it is the source code of some of the MD applications in Piratebay.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Potential Nasdaq symbols: STNL, ASST, ASTNL
no, asstunnel is only when you want to say asshole.
what he meant to say was asssombrero.
The courts recently ruled that the MPAA did no wrong when obtaining Torrentspy private e-mails: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/31/1334245
How is this any different aside from the fact that it is now the torrent sites gaining access to "Big Business" e-mail? Oh, right...
Are you sure it isn't just a setup? I mean the emails were leaked somehow, It is pretty obvious about what would happen with them. Especially if they contained something juicy.
So now, they have known copy-righted works being purposely distributed on those networks which chose to ignore the legal legal remedy that is necessary before a massive lawsuit puts the file sharing networks out of business.
If you thought this outcome was obvious, what makes us think that they couldn't have thought about it too. Time will tell.
Prof. Farnsworth: "This will not stand!" (people talking surprised together) "I'll take you on, you air balling bozos"
Bubblegum: "You old man? Hu! Sweet Clive, laugh derisively at him."
Sweet Clive: "Ahaha, ahaha, aahahaha."
Torrent fans to Mediadefender: "I've got two lots of news for you guys--one bad, the other worse. The bad news is that you're an asstunnel. The second is that we're all driving semis and buses."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
That is pretty stupid. If they go out of business, what is MediaDefender going to sell?
They want rampant bittorrent piracy, except for their customers products, where they want to be able to demonstrate they made a huge difference where law suits didn't.
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MediaDefender Anti-Piracy Tools Leaked
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Don't do it.
Yes, you... I know you're thinking about it.
Leave the goatse link out.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
I tried to download the torrent, but all I got was a bad rip of Fight Club... This site has everything so far.
Asstunnels.
FTFA: "Dearest little asstunnels"
Is it a tunnel within an ass or is it a tunnel made of asses?
"You are in a series of twisty little asstunnels, all alike. It is dark in here. You might be eaten by a gerbil"
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A network can't go out of business. The company hosting a network can, or the company hosting the software for the network, but not the network itself. P2P by its very nature will not die without major government intervention, and even then it won't until the internet is behind lock and key that the government controls. Worst case scenario, all the public P2P networks switch to a darknet style of operation.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
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.