Hey, here's a nice story that really makes you wonder if the FBI are actually serious about prosecuting criminal behaviour, or do they just like to go after teenage kids. I mean, we know they're going to bring the hammer down on the two kids who social-engineered Comcast's domain for giggles, regardless of how little the actual cost was, but 700Mb of email which was mostly dirty laundry getting leaked never did result in anything that I could see happening to MediaDefender.

Now we've got a news story about how MediaDefender apparently just launched a large denial of service attack against a company for having been kicked off their torrent servers for filling them with bogus torrents, when said torrent servers were only for the companies own content in the first place (like, this apparently wasn't a place you could push up bootlegs, or even home movies to).

The article does mention that the FBI is "looking into the matter" but if 700Mb of admissions of guilt didn't do it, I don't see how this is going to affect much.

Boy howdy...

Now we have an apparent interview with Media Defender over at Wired with MediaDefender just spelling it out...

MediaDefender is paid by the recording and motion picture industries to seed fake files to illicit torrent tracking services. When Revision3 closed the tracker during the holiday weekend, the result was a denial of service attack by MediaDefender, which had been seeding the tracker with fake torrents.

There's a number that I'm thinking of, and I'll bet you'll never guess it. I'll give you a hint--it's somewhere between 1029 and 1031. (*kof*a-5-A*kof*)

And there's more!

Saaf said MediaDefender had been seeding the tracker with fake torrents for some time. Fake files corrupt BitTorrent downloads.

That would be Randy Saaf, Media Defender's CEO. We did kinda have 700Mb of emails awhile back telling us this was being done.

...and what does all this mayhem create?

Jim Louderback, Revision3's CEO, said the attack shut down the company's internet site, RSS server and internal corporate e-mail.

I think I can assign a monetary loss value to that. That's easy math.

Internet company - internet == ENOMONEY_TIMEOUT.

...and as if there weren't enough giggles to be had over this, Revision3--the company that MediaDefender attacked--is the company that produces and distributes DiggNation.

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