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MediaDefender's Parent Company Joins P2P Market

Posted by Soulskill on from the playing-both-sides dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news that ArtistDirect, the company who acquired MediaDefender, has launched another company called PiCast for the purpose of P2P video distribution. The reader says: "This is a strange twist for a company which last year set up a video-sharing site called Miivi in an attempt to entrap users uploading copyrighted content, and was caught launching a DoS attack against Revision3, which we discussed earlier this year."

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  1. Re:Not quite by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The blogosphere does not exist so people should quit using such a lame word.

  2. Strange twist? by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "This is a strange twist for a company which last year set up a video-sharing site called Miivi in an attempt to entrap users uploading copyrighted content, and was caught launching a DoS attack against Revision3, which we discussed earlier this year."

    How is setting up another scam service considered a "strange twist"?

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