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Internal Anti-Piracy E-Mail Ranks BitTorrent Sites by Level of Monitoring
zeropaid.com — Secret MediaDefender memo lists sites from "strong to low presence."
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- underdog5004, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7"edited per request of a man above my paygrade............ :("
Bummer, it would have been interesting to see the list. - TwiztOG43, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3bury this crap!
- t3st3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Okay, as you wish :) Buried your comment. It's really crap :)
- Koldkompress, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Submitter, do you have a cache of this? I want to see it.
- elizabethmuelle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:4qc8XNW75xwJ:www.zeropaid.com/news/8913/Internal%2BAnti-Piracy%2BE-Mail%2BRanks%2BBitTorrent%2BSites%2Bby%2BLevel%2Bof%2BMonitoring/+Internal+Anti-Piracy+E-Mail+Ranks+BitTorrent+Sites+by+Level+of+Monitoring&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
- ueadave, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Google cache - http://tinyurl.com/yppgj4
- Stonedonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9In case something happens with the cache, here's a copy-and-paste:
Many of you I'm sure are now familiar with MediaDefender, a self-described "leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention (IPP) industry," and how they are frequently employed by movie studios and record labels to make illegal file-sharing as difficult as possible.
The infamous 99.9% BitTorrent tracker download on TorrentSpy is perhaps the most famous of all fake files that I'm sure they can take partial credit for.
A number of fake Korn albums is apparently some of their most recent work in support of one of their clients, EMI Records.
But, it's often wondered to what degree MediaDefender monitors a BitTorrent tracker site and works to protect the copyrighted material of a particular client.
Well, I have been fortunate enough to get a hold of an interesting internal MediaDefender e-mail that details the degree of BitTorrent tracker site protection they offer for one of their clients, which in this case is Fox Studios
It reads:
From: Pedro C.
To: Octavio H.
Subject: RE: Fox torrent sites
O,
Here is the Fox list site we protect on....from strong to low presence,
in that order.
*
-Bitenova.org
-Torrentportal.com
-Torrentreactor.to
-Isohunt.com
-Torrentbox.com
-MyBittorrent.com
-Torrentspy.com
-Mininova.org
-ThePiratebay.org
The following are sites where we additionally post torrents.
*
-Meganova.org
-Worldnova.org
-Fenopy.com
-BTmon.com
-BTjunkie.org
-Snarf-it.org
-Bushtorrent.com
-Fulldls.com
-Extratorrent.com
-torrentlocomotive.com
~Pedro - crapplebees2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I posted it here: it will not get removed: http://drknife.com/blog/index.php?itemid=82
- keeperofkeys, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'd advise people to avoid the sites in the first list. What do they mean by 'protect'? My guess is, they jump onto torrents and harvest IP addresses.
- Stonedonkey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9In case something happens with the cache, here's a copy-and-paste:
- j37hr0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3How long will the google cache survive?
- crapplebees2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I jhave posted it on my site: http://drknife.com/blog/index.php?itemid=82
- mardigrasnut, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14story cache
MediaDefender memo lists sites from "strong to low presence."
Many of you I'm sure are now familiar with MediaDefender, a self-described "leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention (IPP) industry," and how they are frequently employed by movie studios and record labels to make illegal file-sharing as difficult as possible.
The infamous 99.9% BitTorrent tracker download on TorrentSpy is perhaps the most famous of all fake files that I'm sure they can take partial credit for.
A number of fake Korn albums is apparently some of their most recent work in support of one of their clients, EMI Records.
But, it's often wondered to what degree MediaDefender monitors a BitTorrent tracker site and works to protect the copyrighted material of a particular client.
Well, I have been fortunate enough to get a hold of an interesting internal MediaDefender e-mail that details the degree of BitTorrent tracker site protection they offer for one of their clients, which in this case is Fox Studios
It reads:
From: Pedro C.
To: Octavio H.
Subject: RE: Fox torrent sites
O,
Here is the Fox list site we protect on....from strong to low presence,
in that order.
*
-Bitenova.org
-Torrentportal.com
-Torrentreactor.to
-Isohunt.com
-Torrentbox.com
-MyBittorrent.com
-Torrentspy.com
-Mininova.org
-ThePiratebay.org
The following are sites where we additionally post torrents.
*
-Meganova.org
-Worldnova.org
-Fenopy.com
-BTmon.com
-BTjunkie.org
-Snarf-it.org
-Bushtorrent.com
-Fulldls.com
-Extratorrent.com
-torrentlocomotive.com
~Pedro
I think what's most interesting to find in this list is the fact that the Pirate Bay and Mininova are at the bottom with a "low presence" of anti-piracy activities. There could be a number of reasons for this but, I think it's because the pair are just too darn sophisticated to fall for the fairly easy to detect and predict IP addresses that MediaDefender uses to upload fake content.
Either way, at least the list can provide you with a better idea of what sites to avoid if you don't want to have a run in with fake content, or worse yet, have your IP captured for legal action by the a client's copyright attorneys.- AmishRefugee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1thanks, Pirate Bay for the win
- t3st3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1These monitor companies are looking semi-criminal itself.And yes, RIAA == Racketeers Industry Assoc. of America ;)
- crapplebees2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Digg up a story that will not get removed by the editor: http://digg.com/tech_news/Internal_Anti_Piracy_E_Mail_Ranks_BitTorrent_Sites_by_Level_of_Monitoring_2
or visit http://drknife.com/blog/index.php?itemid=82 - wschalle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Here are the emails for download:
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3806944/MediaDefender.Mail.200612.200709-MDD - 80hd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3806944/MediaDefender.Mail.200612.200709-MDD
They might as well accept their failure. Between Piratebay and Digg/Slashdot etc. This event is set in stone - dezent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://jrwr.hopto.org/ - Link to the emails unpacked
http://jrwr.hopto.org/mediadefender.phonecall-mdd.mp3 - phonecall between MD and some government people :)
Somehow the nice mediadefender defender people managed to own mediadefenders phonesystem !- Jonsblckhwk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1that site was taken down go here:
http://mediadefender-defenders.com/
- Jonsblckhwk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1that site was taken down go here:
- micromause, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3808220/Gnutella.Tracking.Database.Leak.INDEPENDENT
Title: Gnutella.Tracking.Database.Leak.INDEPENDENT
Size: 1.31 GiB (1411952856 Bytes)
Description
"This is a MySQL database dump from a Mediadefenderserver, showing tracking and
decoy file information for the Gnutella network. Thanks to MDD and Seaking for
making this possible."
Score one more for the pirates! - Jonsblckhwk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1http://mediadefender-defenders.com/
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