Can the noose get any tighter?Just when you thought it impossible for any more pain to be inflicted upon those anti-P2P cops over at MediaDefender, along comes the Pirate Bay to drop anchor and fire a new salvo of data leakage. First it was a nice chunk of some 9 months worth of internal MediaDefender e-mails, the most interesting of which clarified my previous conclusions about Mivii.com. They adamantly argued that it was not an entrapment site, that it wasn't intended to ensnare unsuspecting users, but rather was an "...internal project that involved video" and "had nothing to do with anti-piracy." So much for all that mumbo jumbo. Then we had the leak of an apparent phone conversation between a justice department official and MediaDefender's CEO in which an collaboration for a P2P child prone investigation. The matter was supposed to be hush hush, but ironically enough the very conversation itself ended up on P2P (You gotta love it). Now for the latest and greatest data leak to grace the Pirate Bay courtesy of the self-named group "MediaDefender-Defenders," is the actual source code for the software that Media Defender used to spread fake files on P2P and file-sharing networks everywhere. From the Pirate Bay posting: 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.Now normally I might be inclined to say that I was starting to feel sorry for MediaDefender, I mean their very livelihood is at stake here, but then they went ahead and sent us a cease & desist letter yesterday. So with this in mind I'd like to say "Hooray for Pirate Bay," and as usual, though oddly enough, the world owes Sweden a debt of gratitude (THX again BTW for that swimsuit team a few years back). Looking for more stuff to watch or download?MediaDefender E-Mail Ranks BitTorrent Site 'Protection'MPAA & MediaDefender Respond to Exposure of Fake Video Download SiteFake MPAA Video Download Site Goes Offline3 quick ways to watch TV shows for FREE
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I don't know that I've had much trouble with this company. Most of the problems I've found have been on the content itself, like RAR passwords and problems with the encoding, like sound and video being out of sync, but that's getting better and better with time.
If it IS the true source code, it could go a long way into letting developers know what exactly to watch for when making a p2p client or an upgrade to an exsisting app.....