[Uriel]

The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public | TorrentFreak

When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and, as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would, we checked and double 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 purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so.

However, in comments made to Ars technica, Media Defender’s Randy Saaf chose to rubbish our claims, calling it an ‘accidentally un-secured internal project’.

From the emails we cannot be sure that it’s an entrapment site 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 leak of all time. Over 700mb of their own internal emails, dating back over 6 months have 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 involve the most senior people in the company. Apparently this is not the first time that a MediaDefender email leaked onto the Internet.

[turtle777]

What a PR catastrophe. Serves them right.

-t

[Oisín]

Having trouble figuring out if this is truely Nemesetic (what’s the adjective to go with Nemesis?) or merely very ironic.

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

(what’s the adjective to go with Nemesis?)

you're the resident cunning linguist, you tell us.

[turtle777]

Hehe, nice

-t