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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 Goaway · · Score: 0, Troll

    Go download the torrent and read them all yourself.

    See, that's exactly what I did, and what I saw in there was nothing about any entrapment. Every mail about Miivi made it sound like they were sincere about making a real, workable P2P system.

    Once again, if you want to claim otherwise, post some proof of that. If you don't want to post the mail itself, just post enough headers to find it.