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MediaDefender's BitTorrent-Based DOS Takes Down Revision3
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."
Not so fast, there. How do we know that the Revision3 content was legal? Because they (Revision3) say it was? I don't buy it. MediaDefender isn't stupid; they found illegal content and shut it down. The reason there will not be any investigation is because Revision3 cannot allow an investigation to occur, lest they be found guilty of hosting illegal torrents.
So expect Revision3 to waver on this, then they'll put out some strongly worded "you're lucky we're not pursuing this" press statements, and slink away to their corner. Much like Barry Bonds saying he would sue Jose Conseco...the accuser cannot withstand the scrutiny.
that was just me shitting down your mouth. you are clearly mistaken.
I assume that you are also in favor of federal criminal investigations of those who are breaking the applicable federal copyright laws?
you are joking. sorry, i mean, you are a joke.
Not to defend the vigilante actions of "the industry" here; but who's to say that the fake torrents injected into the tracker by them were the ONLY ones on it? Surely if they could find trackers with backdoors, so could others. For all we know R3's tracker had become a clearinghouse for all sorts of "community mirroring" projects.
From TFA: "They were able to do this because we configured the server to track hashes only - to improve performance and stability."
Well, next time, don't configure your tracker so it has a built-in vulnerability that can be exploited by every Tom, Dick and Harry with a file to share. TFA almost reads as though R3 may have known about the extra 'feature' their configuration had---before all this started.
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.