Funny Story for people who like p2p (torrents, etc)

[kali o.]

MediaDefender, one of the annoying anti-p2p companies (the guys who put up fake torrents and altered media, etc) had all their dirty laundry exposed when one of the tool employee's set up his company email to route to his gmail account...whose login information became comprimised. The result?

A years worth of email, that shows:

- MediaDefender uses criminal tactics (DDoS, reverse engineering, etc)
- MediaDefender rips off it's own clients and laughs about them (copyright holders)
- MediaDefender's source code, decoy IPs and everything else became public knowledge
- Funniest of all, Pirate Bay is suing a bunch of Swedish affiliates of MD and copyright holders.

The email in html form can be found here:

http://www.mediadefender-defenders.com/

More in-depth stories can be found by googling Media Defender.

[Zeus]

That RULES. Good on them for being the scrotum of society, they got what they deserved

[Tessian]

I hope everyone sues the shit out of them and brings them up on hacking charges...

Talk about fighting fire with napalm... This is totally the wrong way to go about things.

[SineSwiper]

Totally awesome. The bad news is that a lot of that stuff can't be used in court because it was acquired illegally.

[kali o.]

Totally awesome. The bad news is that a lot of that stuff can't be used in court because it was acquired illegally.

Yeah, most of it can't be used in court, though it's painfully obvious the email is legit (I'm not sure if the Pirate Bay suit is based on the emails or the DDoS attacks that happened after they hosted the emails...but if they sue them in civil court, the emails may be admissable).

The real fallout is the effect on their business. How can you defend client's data when you can't defend your own? And all the trade info they lost - it'll cost them amazing amounts of money to change it all. Their reputation will be in the can, they are finished as a business (as it exists now).

If you listen to the leaked phone call, this security breach will land them in hot water with the government as well. And while it's a shame a Child Porn investigation was compromised, let's be honest here - do we really want these inept asshats at MD handling evidence for criminal charges? Who knows what devious methods they were using, possibly entrapping people? Lord knows I've downloaded my fair share of porn, and ended up with files I've deemed "questionable" when completed, even though my search had no mention of "kiddie" or anything else.