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MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3

Posted by timothy on from the well-that's-certainly-reasonable dept.

Sandman1971 writes "Over the long Memorial Day weekend, Revision3 was the target of a malicious Denial Of Service Attack which brought R3 to its knees. After investigating the matter, it was discovered that the source of the attacks came from MediaDefender, the famed company hired by the MPAA and RIAA to try and stop the spread of illegal file sharing. The kicker? Revision3 was taken down for running a bittorent tracker to distribute its own legal content."

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  1. In other news... by liegeofmelkor · · Score: 1, Redundant

    After recovering from a malicious DOS attack over the weekend by Media Defender, R3 is again under the DOS siege from the infamous slashdot effect.

  2. Re:Criminal investigation? by Mephistro · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For R3's sake; with a highly accusational public post and the feds involved, I sure hope that MediaDefender's fake torrents were the only 'unauthorized' ones ever hosted by R3's tracker. Sir, thats the most baseless post I've read in /. in, say, several hours. Do you think the feds are going to prosecute R3 for having a backdoor? That would cost MediaDefender zillions in bribes!!!

    Rejoice!

  3. Re:Here's the blog post by Technician · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hi

    Hi

    Hi

    Hi

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    The truth shall set you free!
  4. From MediaDefender's front page by Mephistro · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Our solutions have been adopted as practical, proven methods to thwart Internet piracy and to drive consumers to pay for digitized content distributed through authorized channels" This, fresh from MediaDefender's own homepage.
    Racketeering? protection money? WTF?