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- bcherup, on 10/10/2007, -8/+65WTF Kevin, Stop censoring our *****, let the community know whats going on.
http://blog.digg.com/?p=74 - ***** hypocrite. - gta3mobster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+51Trying to censor articles on digg seems to only make the situation worse
*cough* AACS *cough*
So lets just leave this article be. - GruntGrunt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+39***** RIAA worshiping mother ***** got what they had coming to them.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+34It's a little different when he goes on numerous times telling us he's listening to the users and that this site will be a censor-free-user-driven site, which isn't what it is any more.
- Devilboy666, on 10/10/2007, -3/+33Actually I think it's MediaDefender burying all the stories they can find. I mean we already KNOW that they game Digg for their own benefit, right?
- Elbart, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29MediaDefender got served. Next time put less effort in futile torrent-poisoning and more effort into securing your email-communiactions.
PS: Public private keys won't help. - SeasideWordsmth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26Anyone who needs the quick backstory on this please see http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-emails-leaked-070915/
Attn Digg admins, please stop censoring these stories and comments, or someone else will hijack your loyal customers with a copycat Digg-style site that does not bend over to corporate greedmongers.
Sincerely,
A loyal (for now) fan/visitor/customer. - gainax2k1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25Two things i noticed off the bat that cracked me up.
1) last message was in regards to strange packet traffic from the data store (pressumably from being hacked)
2) the message talking about how there was a bunch of free cds and dvds that they were giving away to whoever wanted them (which, if i'm not mistaken, is the whole point of their business to help prevent....) - Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21I wish he would at least comment the censorship on his blog. Each time it happens, it seems they first try to do it silently unless they're forced to do otherwise. That doesn't look good, and there's nothing preventing them from just *commenting* on it and that it happens and why. Why can't they be more open about this...
- Stevo23, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19These emails are comedy GOLD! I can't believe nobody's highlighted the single funniest email in this release yet. http://jrwr.hopto.org/msg03867.html
From Ben Grodsky on 5/11/2007:
"it's the first bestiality vid i've gotten that didn't have any porn or bestiality key words.
i'm not offended by bestiality in the least and actually have seen a few of the horse and dog ***** videos already Razz
cool. no worries though. it just freaks me out when key words couldn't do anything at all.
From: Jay Mairs
Sent: Fri 11-May-07 10:20
To: Ben Grodsky; Dylan Douglas
Subject: Re: naughty miivi hash for filter
If that's the first bestiality vid you've seen on there, you've been extremely lucky. When the inappropriate flag stuff is implemented, it should catch a lot of that. Admin tools will be coming in the future. In the meantime, you'll need to delete offensive material from your own account.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Grodsky
To: Dylan Douglas
Cc: Jay Mairs
Sent: Fri May 11 10:11:21 2007
Subject: naughty miivi hash for filter
Dylan,
I wouldn't normally e-mail you directly about MiiVi stuff, because a lot of what I say about this is total crap (so keep that in mind) and Jay filters the crap from the important stuff for you. Is there a way to add this hash/title to the porn filter explicitly?
hash=30755326A4E4B28E678BFF8CB2AF5FC4A4FBF710&i=3 (the title is Celebrity deathmatch: Korn vs slipknot and the exact URL is http://129.47.9.160/zonie/media.php?hash=30755326A4E4B2...2AF5FC4A4FBF710&i=3)
I just flagged it as Other Terms of Use violation. It's a warthog (or maybe it's a big bushy dog, I can't tell) having sex with a woman and NOT a Korn vs. Slipknot mash-up video.
If this is a big deal, don't worry about it for now. But eventually this would probably need a tool of some kind for a Super User account to remove files from our indexing system all together." - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19I'm not sure if we 'know', but its something most users here would expect of them.
- DocHoliday22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18You guys should read what they say about their clients. In one they wrote "Microsoft wants cracks but doesn't know what to do with them?!?!" and in some others they either mock or make their clients look incompetent. This may be the end for this company.
- idsjfoiewh3498, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17http://digg.com/security/A_list_of_torrents_being_watched_by_the_authorities
http://digg.com/security/MediaDefender_Banned_And_Blocked
http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Biggest_Ever_BitTorrent_Leak_MediaDefender_Internal_Emails_Go_Public
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/MediaDefender_leaks_phone_calls_as_well
http://digg.com/tech_news/MediaDefender_Phone_Call_and_Gnutella_Tracking_Database_Leaked
http://digg.com/tech_news/Leaked_Media_Defender_e_mails_reveal_secret_government_project
http://digg.com/tech_news/Media_Defenders_Emails_Leaked_HTML_Format - DocHoliday22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Is Break.com in on the act?
Randy Saaf: "Can you pull the traffic numbers from for break.com? Let me know how they look relative to artistdirect.com? We have a meeting with them next week. I have looked at quantcast and alexa and they both give opposite answers to the traffic. Thanks." - puredeviation, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20THIS MESSAGE CONTAINS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND TRADE SECRETS OF
AUDIBLE
MAGIC, UNAUTHORIZED USE OR DISCLOSURE IS PROHIBITED
Lol - Devilboy666, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17It's in their emails - they discuss posting fake stories and comments to digg. Check the ArsTechnica.com article on it.
- delusr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18This is turning out to be one great leads list I sold the email addresses in it to a local telemarketing business for a hundred bucks :)
- H0ns, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17I've harvested 110 e-mail adresses so far :) jay@mediadefender.com
stefan@thezonie.org
grodsky@mediadefender.com
jonathan@mediadefender.com
roka@mediadefender.com
ben@mediadefender.com
dylan@mediadefender.com
hwang@mediadefender.com
heath@mediadefender.com
sujay@mediadefender.com
octavio@mediadefender.com
randy@mediadefender.com
ivan@mediadefender.com
tabish@mediadefender.com
jeff@mediadefender.com
dlee@mediadefender.com
gmacias@mediadefender.com
itsupport@mediadefender.com
qatickets@mediadefender.com
bittickets@mediadefender.com
amaechi@mediadefender.com
ty.heath@gmail.com
steve@mediadefender.com
projecttickets@mediadefender.com
patrickpanz@verizon.net
gerald@mediadefender.com
gilberto@mediadefender.com
anirudha.khanna@gmail.com
jasper@mediadefender.com
enrique@mediadefender.com
emuletickets@mediadefender.com
jose@mediadefender.com
Jesse.Kanner@capitolmusic.com
jperez@mediadefender.com
pcortez@mediadefender.com
daza@mediadefender.com
DougKamin@ARTISTdirect.com
jed@mediadefender.com
benhui@mediadefender.com
naineshsolanki@gmail.com
mark@mediadefender.com
andrew@mediadefender.com
danny@mediadefender.com
joshua@mediadefender.com
Aaron.Markham@nbcuni.com
sergio@mediadefender.com
mmorales@mediadefender.com
Andrew.Skinner@nbcuni.com
Jeremy.Banks@ifpi.org
Rosemary.Nolan@ifpi.org
info@miivi.com
ty.heath@mac.com
cs@anonymizerinc.com
gnutellatickets@mediadefender.com
joel@mediadefender.com
jmairs@gmail.com
calendar-notification@google.com
cgillis@mediadefender.com
project_management@mediadefender.com
mary@mediadefender.com
vishalpa@usc.edu
nsolanki@mediadefender.com
Armen.Abelyan@nbcuni.com
Michelle.Huynh@nbcuni.com
iandrade@mediadefender.com
rick@mediadefender.com
analytics-support@google.com
Rene.Rousselet@ARTISTdirect.com
fmenang@mediadefender.com
olchang@aol.com
ckeller@mediadefender.com
abuse@mediadefender.com
nsaxby@mediadefender.com
David.Benjamin@umusic.com
Michael.Potts@ARTISTdirect.com
AppleID@apple.com
devprograms@apple.com
miivi@mediadefender.com
nlivingston@mediadefender.com
noreply@adc.apple.com
jvd@aol.com
info@parallels.com
hrach@mediadefender.com
schwanky@gmail.com
forward-verify@yahoo-inc.com
theskycat@gmail.com
chris@zeropaid.com
network@etp1102.etp.na.blackberry.net
mekrob@gmail.com
theshockwave@gmail.com
christopher.bell@umusic.com
sahuja@mediadefender.com
Damien.Montanile@ARTISTdirect.com
Bradley.Bartram@oag.state.ny.us
mkoelsch@mediadefender.com
akshay.singhal@gmail.com
sshah@mediadefender.com
michael.mccartney@oag.state.ny.us
tabishasan@gmail.com
Ethan.Karp@umusic.com
Peri.Kadanoff@oag.state.ny.us
stockbesoffen@hotmail.com
jlouie@mediadefender.com
bmao@mediadefender.com
manali.rane@gmail.com
laranha@mediadefender.com
noreply@news.skype.com
dlai@mediadefender.com
olivas@mediadefender.com
jgaspar@anonymizerinc.com - Flanker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16"Steve, please redirect miivi.com to point to an ip that's not one of ours (random ip or whatever)."
This in response to their being dugg. They are essentially DoS-ing whatever IP they redirected to (assuming it was a single IP). They invited a bunch of traffic to their own house (by being idiots) and then put a sign on their door saying "party moved down the street" and some unsuspecting IP got slammed by the digg effect. Idiots. - geeshock, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15I like the email about "Free CD's". "help yourselves, they're totally free".
http://jrwr.hopto.org/msg00001.html - smellinator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Check this out: http://jrwr.hopto.org/msg03024.html
Andrew's gettin screwed
Developer raises
* To: "Jay Mairs"
* Subject: Developer raises
* From: "Octavio Herrera"
* Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:20:39 -0700
* Cc: "Randy Saaf" , "Ben Grodsky"
Do not give these to payroll until jay tells you he has told these guys.
Ivan – 5% raise, bonus at end of year
Ty – 5% raise, bonus at end of year
Sergio – up to $74K
Dylan - up to $77K
Sujay - up to $71K
Jed – up to $61K
Andrew - up to $59K
Nainesh - up to $70K
Daeyoung- up to $62K
Best,
Octavio Herrera
--------------------------
President
MediaDefender, Inc.
310.956.3352 - Bilabrin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14"i'm not offended by bestiality in the least and actually have seen a few of the horse and dog ***** videos already Razz
cool. no worries though."
Wow.............just.......wow. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15"Did you change the registration info on miivi.com to put me as the contact? I'm scared."
LOL! Classic. Actually he had good reasons to be weirded out, now not only the world knows that site was a front, they can also read his emails. Hilarious! - Rykielz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16Digg or die trying!
- Meccabilly, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13What media companies are employing these people?? $4000 for an album? Whats that actually paying for? Its completely ineffective! You can get anything you want on bittorent (if you were so inclined - not encoraging that sort of thing obviously) - games, films, music. So what if they post fake ones? The comunity weed them out and they get ignored. If I was one of these companies I wouldn't bother... Save your money and put it into better products. If you have a better quality of product that is easier to obtain and use then pirated versions then people will buy it.
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13I wonder if this constitutes as "magic, unauthorized use"!
- Cherubim, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13This place has become a ***** hole. Sensible posts are now being removed. What a bunch of fascist pricks!
- Devilboy666, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14Actually I think it's MediaDefender burying all the stories they can find. I mean we already know from their emails that they game Digg for their own benefit.
- xation, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12The genius employee of MD subscribed to a torrent site using the gmail account he had setup as an email archive as the username and used the same password for the torrent site as he did for the gmail account. His IP addressed was a known MD IP, so they looked into his account info and struck gold.
Poor bastard. - darmokan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I wonder if this might be their new venture? I read this story and was compelled to go and download some new movies, but man... just... I HATE when people comment spam, and I'm sorry, and seriously, I don't care if you digg this, but... I think it's important: http://digg.com/security/Who_is_attempting_to_entrap_users_of_aXXo_torrents
- smellinator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11My thought exactly!
Now, though, if you run a DNS Lookup on miivi.com, (now) you get 68.178.232.100, and if you do a name lookup on that, you get
parkwebwin-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net
That server hosts 5 MILLION domain names (see http://whois.webhosting.info/68.178.232.100 for a list), so it's a parking service, and I doubt it's a problem for them. - lcmatt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12http://digg.com/security/Remember_this_DIGG
- cultist667, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Wait till you read the email about the RIAA giving them money to hunt down unsigned artists using their MYSPACE and making them offers they can't refuse!
- Elbart, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11and if you need a Parallels key, it's in the emails too
AND they are using AVG Free Edition in the company, bad boys! :) - decadre, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Yeah, I think someone in the media should get wind of the fact that a company is uploading fake torrents that children might and possibly could download that is not only porn, but bestiality. As much as I detest him, I'm thinking one of the FNC blowhards like O'Reilly could have a field day with this...
- Elbart, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10wrong article, but whatever :)
- kevincw01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Comma seperated list for pasting into your favorite e-mail to: box and sending a nice message:
jay@mediadefender.com,
stefan@thezonie.org,
grodsky@mediadefender.com,
jonathan@mediadefender.com,
roka@mediadefender.com,
ben@mediadefender.com,
dylan@mediadefender.com,
hwang@mediadefender.com,
heath@mediadefender.com,
sujay@mediadefender.com,
octavio@mediadefender.com,
randy@mediadefender.com,
ivan@mediadefender.com,
tabish@mediadefender.com,
jeff@mediadefender.com,
dlee@mediadefender.com,
gmacias@mediadefender.com,
itsupport@mediadefender.com,
qatickets@mediadefender.com,
bittickets@mediadefender.com,
amaechi@mediadefender.com,
ty.heath@gmail.com,
steve@mediadefender.com,
projecttickets@mediadefender.com,
patrickpanz@verizon.net,
gerald@mediadefender.com,
gilberto@mediadefender.com,
anirudha.khanna@gmail.com,
jasper@mediadefender.com,
enrique@mediadefender.com,
emuletickets@mediadefender.com,
jose@mediadefender.com,
Jesse.Kanner@capitolmusic.com,
jperez@mediadefender.com,
pcortez@mediadefender.com,
daza@mediadefender.com,
DougKamin@ARTISTdirect.com,
jed@mediadefender.com,
benhui@mediadefender.com,
naineshsolanki@gmail.com,
mark@mediadefender.com,
andrew@mediadefender.com,
danny@mediadefender.com,
joshua@mediadefender.com,
Aaron.Markham@nbcuni.com,
sergio@mediadefender.com,
mmorales@mediadefender.com,
Andrew.Skinner@nbcuni.com,
Jeremy.Banks@ifpi.org,
Rosemary.Nolan@ifpi.org,
info@miivi.com,
ty.heath@mac.com,
cs@anonymizerinc.com,
gnutellatickets@mediadefender.com,
joel@mediadefender.com,
jmairs@gmail.com,
cgillis@mediadefender.com,
project_management@mediadefender.com,
mary@mediadefender.com,
nsolanki@mediadefender.com,
Armen.Abelyan@nbcuni.com,
Michelle.Huynh@nbcuni.com,
iandrade@mediadefender.com,
rick@mediadefender.com,
Rene.Rousselet@ARTISTdirect.com,
fmenang@mediadefender.com,
olchang@aol.com,
ckeller@mediadefender.com,
abuse@mediadefender.com,
nsaxby@mediadefender.com,
David.Benjamin@umusic.com,
Michael.Potts@ARTISTdirect.com,
miivi@mediadefender.com,
nlivingston@mediadefender.com,
jvd@aol.com,
info@parallels.com,
hrach@mediadefender.com,
schwanky@gmail.com,
theskycat@gmail.com,
chris@zeropaid.com,
mekrob@gmail.com,
theshockwave@gmail.com,
christopher.bell@umusic.com,
sahuja@mediadefender.com,
Damien.Montanile@ARTISTdirect.com,
Bradley.Bartram@oag.state.ny.us,
mkoelsch@mediadefender.com,
akshay.singhal@gmail.com,
sshah@mediadefender.com,
michael.mccartney@oag.state.ny.us,
tabishasan@gmail.com,
Ethan.Karp@umusic.com,
Peri.Kadanoff@oag.state.ny.us,
stockbesoffen@hotmail.com,
jlouie@mediadefender.com,
bmao@mediadefender.com,
manali.rane@gmail.com,
laranha@mediadefender.com,
dlai@mediadefender.com,
olivas@mediadefender.com,
jgaspar@anonymizerinc.com
I removed the mailing lists and noreplys. - lore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9My personal favorite thus far:
"Team,
Please make sure you take your lunch from the refrigerator HOME. A salad was disposed to garbage can do to mold on food. Some molds can cause allergic reactions &/or respiratory problems.
Thanks
Bo Olivas" - playerZero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10if only there was a magic box... that you could type text into and get answers...
- thripper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9"crap" usage (number of lines containing the word) - 132
"*****" usage - 91
pretty good for such a log period of time - zyklon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9This is a beautiful thing.
- H0ns, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Can somebody harvest the e-mail adresses and post it somewhere?
So that i can easily copy and paste them... somewhere... - gainax2k1, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9this is the latest in a series of stories you can find on digg (just look up media defender). The short version of the story is something along the lines of this:
Big "evil" company makes money "ensuring the protecting of intellectual property". Basically, Media Defender gets paid big cash by copyright holders to try to prevent the theft of their intellectual property. Think music labels, movie studios, etc.
The twist that makes this interesting is that it shows how they were going about it, by setting up false media sharing facilities (i.e., wiive.com (sp?) and, the laughably badly named viide.com (your one stop online source for VDs.....)) to entrap possible pirates for legal action. they also propagate false files, DOS attacks, etc.
the juicier bits come in the details where they lay out how they go about setting up their false accounts and laying out their somewhat dubious methodologies.
so, in short, by reading through some of their emails and reading a bit between the lines, you get a pretty entertaining story on how one corrupt company does the dirty work for other corrupt companies. - gamerzfuse, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11this is really great! i was waiting for a transcribe.
well done. - Osjpr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8These guys were scamming the RIAA and MPAA. Their enterprise was to milk as much money out of the studios as possible. I think spying on p2p was a lower priority if a priority at all. So that makes them double-crossers.
- vvaduva, on 10/10/2007, -0/+855K - 100K a year is good pay? In Los Angeles? You are out of your mind!
- TaeBoX, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7These emails are full of secrets, and that is interesting, unless you think secrets are boring.
- scarwars, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7we should all send this one a little thank you note: jmairs@gmail.com
- imabot, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Excellent!
- orlyfactor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9It also contains their socials. Very, very bad.
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