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MediaDefender Explains Itself
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Wired has an interview with MediaDefender in which they try to explain why they attacked Revision3, which uses BitTorrent to host its own content. Somehow it eluded MediaDefender that they had injected fake content into Revision3's tracker, so when Revision3 changed configuration to forbid this injection, MediaDefender's systems saw it as a pirate tracker with lots of illegal content (which MediaDefender had put there) and attacked. In other words, everything they did was intentional except for the choice of target. Given that they have 9 Gbps of bandwidth dedicated to denial-of-service attacks against torrent trackers, all anyone needs to do is to trick them into attacking a hospital or government facility. MediaDefender has never been very competent, after all."
...that Air Traffic Control using BitTorrent to distribute approaches is quite possibly the worst analogy I've heard come out of this whole mess.
it all begins with going to http://www.mediadefender.com/
Kaffee: It was oregano, Dave. It was 10 dollars worth of oregano.
Lieutenant Dave Spradling: Yeah, but your client thought it was marijuana.
Kaffee: My client's a moron that's not against the law.
Lieutenant Dave Spradling: Kaffee, I have people to answer to just like you do. I'm going to charge him.
Kaffee: With what? Possession of a condiment?
X(7): A program for managing terminal windows. See also screen(1).
I can't prove it but I heard that The Planet was hosting an open tracker. We all heard what happened to them... http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/01/1715247
Ahhhhhh I get it now. The recent power outages wasn't due to the Chinese Cyber Militia. Someone at the plant must've been downloading the new Snoop Dogg album! Hence no power. That should teach those damned pirates....
No it wouldnt. That's one dollar.
Computer systems should be treated as pets, if they attack someone they should be put to sleep.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Also, we made this cake. For you. Please, don't ask about the teeth marks.
What's most disturbing is that I doubt any court will ever find them guilty of a crime for this, if charges are even pressed.
Can someone tag this with "MafiaDefender" please?
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
The responsible parties are drowning their sorrows in champaign, their guilt crushed under the weight of party hats and women of ill repute.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I thought filesharing=communism.
There's even a poster.
Scientists now say the future will be far more futuristic than originally believed
The cake is a lie! (sorry, I'll just let myself out)
"This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence" - Vyvyan "The Young Ones"
thegodmovie.com - watch it
I hope that's not the case, or else I've wasted the last few years of my life, and a lot of money...
(IANAL yet, but hopefully very soon!)
Suse vivo vixi victum reduco is ea id creatura absit decessus a facultas Linux! Dev root, dev root!
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
It bloody figures that SkyNet spawned from the evil **AA entities :P
Depends on the script language you use.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Great bandwidth. Everyone knows Wookiees use BitTorrent.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.