MPAA Stool Pigeons Hacked

And now, some epic pwnage to make you smile this weekend: MediaDefender, a company that works for the MPAA to build fake video-sharing sites that entrap uploaders and fake torrents that spam filesharers, has been hacked. A group called MediaDefender-Defenders has leaked nine months’ worth of MediaDefender internal emails — fittingly enough, as a torrent.

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Date: 2007-09-15

MediaDefender-Defenders proudly presents 9 months worth of internal MediaDefender emails

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.

A special thanks to Jay Maris, for circumventing there entire email-security by forwarding all your emails to your gmail account, and using the really highly secure password: blahbob

So here it is, we hope this is enough to create a viable defense to the tactics used by these companies, also there should be enough fuel to keep the p2p bloggers busy for quite some time.

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The emails tell a long, sad tale of blatant deceit by corporate goons. In the words of MediaDefender’s Randy Saaf, “This is really fucked.” You would think a bunch of big media stool pigeons inviting the ire of smart Netizens would have better security.