[NYTr] MediaDefender:  More Egg-on-Face Entertainment on the Net
 
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:11:52 -0500 (CDT)

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MediaDefender:  More Egg-on-Face, More Entertainment on the Net

By Peter Bell

MediaDefender - the group who claim to prevent file-sharing - continue
to be having kind of an off week.

25 minutes of a phone call between this company and the NY State AG's
office hit the network this week.  That audio probably compromised
active child-porn investigations.  It's one of the most popular
downloads at many file trading sites.

See: "Get Out of Jail Free - Public Negligence in NY State" 9/18/07
http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070917/068613.html

There is also a file out there which contains months of company emails.

Now, MediaDefender claims to be able to stop peer-to-peer file-sharing
-- to make finding these files as hard as finding a needle in a
haystack, via "countermeasures."  Countermeasures so effective that
when a paying customer asked them to document how much less music was
being traded at .edu institutions, the internal email that went around
the company said, in part, "take a moment to laugh to yourselves."

Their website (they really ought to turn it off for now) tells us:

"This has been an exciting year for the MediaDefender Marketing team. In
addition to pioneering the world's first (and now largest) company that
protects copywritten digital content (music, movies, tv, videogames,
etc),"  

["copywritten?" uhm... the word is "copyrighted," if you're talking
about copyright-protected intellectual property, you poor illiterate
sap morons.-NYTransfer]

Okay, so content protection is their game.  Why can't they keep kids
from downloading a call with the Attorney General of New York State?
Why can't the keep dorks from reading their internal emails?  Both of
those items sound like content.

And what did these punks do to try to put a lid on their content?  They
wrote to people with big file-sharing sites and threatened lawsuits.
The fact that this approach does not work is what these lying douchebags
built their whole business on.

"[...] we have now leveraged our technology to allow our clients to
market to the world's 300 million file-sharing users."

Holy shit!  That's brilliant!  it's a *marketing ploy!*  They're
introducing us to their best customers!  I understand now!

Now, this is a progressive concern.  Along with the brilliant new
marketing ploy, today Media Defender went open source.

Like it or not.

Source code for all their applications is being downloaded around the
world today.

Here's the description of the source:

              -={ MediaDefender-Defenders }=-
                     Date: 2007-09-20

MediaDefender-Defenders proudly presents the source code
that MediaDefender use.

The source is complete for their operations regarding
Kazaa, bittorrent, gnutella etc. This system is now
released for the public in order to identify the decoys
they set up.

A special thanks to the MD employee that gave this to us.

              -={ MediaDefender-Defenders }=-

(That 'special thanks' is probably to the employee who didn't change the
passwords in time to prevent their ftp servers from being rooted around
in.)

Go, team go! 

-PB

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