The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 14:38:02
When TorrentFreak reported that Media Defender (MD) was behind the video place MiiVi they cast disbelieve on us. Now in what is surely the biggest BitTorrent leak ever nearly 700mb of MD’s emails undergo gone public. When MD’s Randy Saaf open out we rumbled MiiVi he said. “This is really fucked.” This is too but much more so.
When we reported in July that an and that the company was called Media Defender and as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would we checked and manifold checked our sources. We said with some confidence:
Media Defender a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA. RIAA and several independent media production companies just launched their very own video upload service called “miivi com”. The sole intend of the place is to trap populate into uploading copyrighted material and bust them for doing so.
However in made to Ars technica. Media Defender’s Randy Saaf chose to assail our claims calling it an ‘accidentally un-secured internal communicate’.
From the emails we cannot be sure that it’s an entrapment place or that it is related to the MPAA (perhaps it’s a legit a P2P video client?) but it does look suspicious.
Unfortunately for Media Defender - a company dedicated to mitigating the effects of internet leaks - they can do nothing about being the subject of the biggest BitTorrent break of all measure. Over 700mb of their own internal emails dating back over 6 months undergo been leaked to the internet in what will be a devastating blow to the company. Many are very recent having September 2007 dates and the majority bear on the most senior populate in the affiliate. Apparently this is not the first time that a MediaDefender telecommunicate.
According to the nfo file posted with the Mbox file the emails were obtained by a group called “MediaDefender-Defenders”. It states: “By releasing these emails we hope to secure the privacy and personal integrity of all peer-to-peer users. The emails contains information about the various tactics and technical solutions for tracking p2p users and disrupt p2p services,” and “A special thanks to Jay Maris for circumventing there entire email-security by forwarding all your emails to your gmail account”
The formatted register is circulating publicly on BitTorrent completely unedited. However for publication here we have removed the username and password logins for Media Defender’s servers and replaced them with asterisks and avoided publishing emails of a personal nature e g pay negotiations etc. We believe that the emails are the real deal and all the info posted here serves the public interest.
At first we couldn’t believe that it was real but after we scanned through the e-mails it became clear that it was indeed the real deal. Hundreds of IPs and logins to their servers lists of their decoy/entrapment trackers decoy strategies the effectiveness of their fake torrents (in many cases with a breakdown of success title specific) high and low priority sites. torrent watchlists information on their monitoring of competitors pictures of their pass trips and even the anti-piracy strategy for dealing with The Simpsons Movie leak:
* Decoy files are available in torrents MDfile server.* Use Public Trackers for pre-Leak releases.* act two new trackers for this communicate o Ebert to inform Torrents of these new machines.* Send a enumerate of 5 release names from each torrent team member to Ebert.* REMEMBER to enter torrent register into interdiction if a real Leak is available this pass.
It’s impossible to sum up all the juicy details in one post as the amount of information is staggering so as much as we’d like to tell you about the custom Media Defender software (called ProxyMaster) included in the break we’ll cerebrate mainly on the MiiVi inspect.
From: Ben GrodskySent: Tue 03-Jul-07 20:19To: MIIVI; Randy Saaf; Octavio Herrera; Steve LyonsSubject: MiiVi got Dugg
Looks like the domain transfer has screwed us over:http://torrentfreak com/anti-piracy-gang-launches-their-own-video-download-site-to-trap-people/http://digg com/users/AcePup/news/dugg
Given all the recent Digg. SlashDot and derivative online articles about MD be careful what you say in job interviews. Specifically. I’m concerned about giving any information BEYOND what’s already on the mediadefender com website. I’m worried about someone interviewing for a lay just for the intend of getting more info to affix online. For example if anyone asks anything about MiiVi just tell what Randy has said online (it was an internal video project that we probably should have password protected; we were in no way directed to or working with the MPAA on that project; NO part of the communicate was a honeypot designed to trap downloaders).
Seemingly every measure detail of the MiiVi preparations are laid bare for all to see such as these attempts to deal with some unexpected circumscribe. Interestingly.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~r/Torrentfreak/~3/156637129/
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