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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Uh... BULLSHIT.

    I don't know what set of emails you read. But the ones i read sure paint these people as complete scumbags looking to entrap users by any means.

    While laughing about screwing people over for what they were doing themselves.

  2. It's a trap. by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If ever there was an article deserving of the "itsatrap" tag...

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  3. Re:Strange twist? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It isn't a strange twist for them to be setting up a legit company for legit paid-for content either.

    Given what they did to Revision3, which was a legit company distributing legit, free content, it seems like very much a strange twist.

    Of course, if I get slightly more cynical, of course it makes sense -- good PR about them doing legit P2P, to counter bad PR about them attacking legit P2P. In fact, in light of this, the attack on Revision3 makes sense -- it would be an attack against a competitor.

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  4. Re:Not quite by BronsCon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Because it's quite obvious that the big content owners have significant influence over our legal systems.

    Yet they still have no control over our illegal systems; thus why such systems exist.

    If I pay for it, it's my system, I want to control it. If you want it to be your system so you can control it, don't take my money and hand it over to me.

    (I know, you meant legal system, but your ironic typo left set quite a nice stage for me to make my point.)

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