yakety yak wrote:

>
> -----
>
> http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefende...leaked-070915/
>
> "The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go
> Public"
>
> "...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..."
>
> "...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'"
>
> -----
>
> From comments there and elsewhere, it appears that the collection also
> contains some emails that will affect current file-sharing cases and may
> even prompt some big class-action lawsuits. However, those are the legal
> opinions of techs, not lawyers. Perhaps Groklaw will enlighten us once PJ
> has a chance to digest it all?

Makes for great reading... It's hard to believe that there's an actual
business in filling bittorrent with bogus files... Amazing.

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Jerry McBride

____/ Jerry McBride on Sunday 16 September 2007 03:20 : \____

> yakety yak wrote:
>
>>
>> -----
>>
>> http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefende...leaked-070915/
>>
>> "The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go
>> Public"
>>
>> "...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..."
>>
>> "...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'"
>>
>> -----
>>
>> From comments there and elsewhere, it appears that the collection also
>> contains some emails that will affect current file-sharing cases and may
>> even prompt some big class-action lawsuits. However, those are the legal
>> opinions of techs, not lawyers. Perhaps Groklaw will enlighten us once PJ
>> has a chance to digest it all?
>
> Makes for great reading... It's hard to believe that there's an actual
> business in filling bittorrent with bogus files... Amazing.

How about 2.2 GB of Comes vs Microsoft exhibits? Many of these 3,000 items
(some of which as large as hundreds of pages) give you enough to go away
with... _for a while_.

Here's a fun one, which someone whom I know is gradually extracting all the
text from (for indexing):

http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowa...00/PX03096.pdf

In years to come, transparency will increase, whether corporations and
governments like it or not. China has already complained that its
national 'secrets' have been leaked and P2P in the US surely lets those
sensitive files get around. Not to mention many millions of Windows zombies
(in businesses, not just in home) whose hard-drive content are accessible to
merely /anyone/ around the world....

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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Here's a fun one, which someone whom I know is gradually extracting
> all the text from (for indexing):
>
> http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowa...00/PX03096.pdf

Looks like I've got another project to work on now.

It seems that Media Defender is not just using entrapment, but they're
even tracking /unsigned/ (non-RIAA) bands to speculate on their possible
lucrative potential for the Media Defender protection racket. Al Capone
would be proud.

Here's a sample:


######
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Fw: some bands to potentially track
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:33:35 -0700
From: Randy Saaf
To: Jay Mairs , Ben Grodsky




Could u have these artists entered into our marketing intel system? Thanks.

R

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Kamin
To: Randy Saaf
Sent: Sat Mar 31 18:47:13 2007
Subject: FW: some bands to potentially track

hey randy,
nice seeing you at fatburger

can you confirm that you've received this? thx
doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Kamin
Sent: Fri 3/30/2007 12:52 PM
To: 'xxxxx@mediadefender.com'
Cc:
Subject: some bands to potentially track


some interesting angles to look at it/take here:


Colbie Caillat - most popular UNSIGNED artist on myspace
would be interesting to see some data on her


http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/stor...011508,00.html
Blonde Redhead album comes out in a few weeks. this is an indie band...
no presence outside of online geeks like me. interesting to see what
kind of traction they might be getting
######

The full archive is a standard mbox format (no OCR'ing required /this/
time). Publishing and indexing will be trivial.

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____/ [H]omer on Sunday 16 September 2007 20:56 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Here's a fun one, which someone whom I know is gradually extracting
>> all the text from (for indexing):
>>
>> http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowa...00/PX03096.pdf
>
> Looks like I've got another project to work on now.
>
> It seems that Media Defender is not just using entrapment, but they're
> even tracking /unsigned/ (non-RIAA) bands to speculate on their possible
> lucrative potential for the Media Defender protection racket. Al Capone
> would be proud.
>
> Here's a sample:
>
>
> ######
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Fw: some bands to potentially track
> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:33:35 -0700
> From: Randy Saaf
> To: Jay Mairs , Ben Grodsky
>
>
>
>
> Could u have these artists entered into our marketing intel system? Thanks.
>
> R
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Kamin
> To: Randy Saaf
> Sent: Sat Mar 31 18:47:13 2007
> Subject: FW: some bands to potentially track
>
> hey randy,
> nice seeing you at fatburger
>
> can you confirm that you've received this? thx
> doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Kamin
> Sent: Fri 3/30/2007 12:52 PM
> To: 'xxxxx@mediadefender.com'
> Cc:
> Subject: some bands to potentially track
>
>
> some interesting angles to look at it/take here:
>
>
> Colbie Caillat - most popular UNSIGNED artist on myspace
> would be interesting to see some data on her
>
>
> http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/stor...011508,00.html
> Blonde Redhead album comes out in a few weeks. this is an indie band...
> no presence outside of online geeks like me. interesting to see what
> kind of traction they might be getting
> ######
>
> The full archive is a standard mbox format (no OCR'ing required /this/
> time). Publishing and indexing will be trivial.

What will be the name of the subsite? It can't be "media". Just let it be
indexed. I'm assuming you've grabbed the torrent, so now you just need to fit
a photo of a sweaty... errrmmm... media mogul to the index.

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~~ Best of wishes

Roy S. Schestowitz | Linux: the most popular, but not most widespread
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
http://iuron.com - proposing a non-profit search engine

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:20:48 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote:

> Makes for great reading... It's hard to believe that there's an actual
> business in filling bittorrent with bogus files... Amazing.

And now we know how much of a business:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...t-project.html

"One of the most informative documents included in the leaked e-mails is a
draft of MediaDefender's confidential contract with Universal Music Group.
The contract reveals exact details of MediaDefender's pricing structure
and services and provides insight into which P2P networks the company is
targeting. MediaDefender charges $4,000 for one month of protection for an
album, and $2,000 for one month of protection for a track."

Here's another interesting item from the article:

"The e-mails, unfortunately, also contain some highly sensitive financial
information, including a spreadsheet with the salaries, Social Security
numbers, and home addresses of individual MediaDefender software
developers."

The hackers will have a field day.