MediaDefender's Parent Company Joins P2P Market

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."

Comments

Re:Not quite

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Strange twist?

[mwvdlee]

"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"?

Re:Strange twist?

[SanityInAnarchy]

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.

Re:Not quite

[hairyfeet]

TFA also forgot that MD also dabbled in the porn business for awhile. As for why this is news,I want to know any business that MediaDefender is in so I can avoid it like the clap!!! Let me put it this way: With all the low down,dirty,underhanded,sneaky bullsh*t that they have pulled over the years would YOU want their software to have access to your machine? Would YOU trust them with your CC? I'm guessing that is a big no. These guys aren't any more trustworthy than the ones writing viruses. And why hasn't someone busted their @ss for the DDoS BS? I thought that was illegal?

Re:Not quite

[Nullav]

Really? Then what's that big yellow thing I keep seeing past the clouds?

It's a trap.

[Sir_Lewk]

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

Re:Not quite

[BronsCon]

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.)

Re:Not quite

[Sj0]

You shouldn't be attacking his incorrect use of a plural! Just because you're on the Internets doesn't mean you can clogg up the series of tubes(not to be confused with a big truck) with your hatred. The Google will cache those pages!