Poor Anti-Pirates: E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email Gets Leaked
The infamous anti-piracy organization IFPI sent an email to warn its members NOT to any send email to colleagues that use an xxx@ifpi.com email address because that domain is now owned by their rivals from the “International Federation of Pirate Interests”. Unfortunately the members did not listen, and even the email about the leak leaked.
Last month a leaked email from The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) - the anti-piracy organization that represents the recording industry worldwide - revealed that they had plans to request confidential information from an ongoing police investigation of The Pirate Bay.
Several people were wondering how this email leaked, and rumors about hacked mail servers started to circulate. It now now becomes clear how the email leaked - and there is not much hacking involved - it seems that some of their members were still sending emails to xxx@ifpi.com addresses - not that smart.
The IFPI of course warned their members not to use any .com addresses anymore, but ironically, this email was forwarded to a .com address a few hours later. Here’s a quote from the leaked email correspondence that was anonymously forwarded to TorrentFreak.
“… please be aware that the person operating the domain is also collecting emails that are sent in error to anything@ifpi.com. You may have seen press reports regarding an email leak from IFPI – this was a result of an email being sent in error to an ifpi.com email address and is not indicative of any more serious problem with email security.”
Can you be even more stupid than to forward this message to someone using an IFPI.com address? I’ve always doubted the rumors that most people who work at these anti-piracy organizations are too dumb to tie their own shoes, but I’m starting to believe it now.
Unfortunately there was not much news in the email, the huge list of anti-pirate email addresses may come in handy sometime though. In addition, there was some info about the domain dispute the IFPI filed to get their .com domain back, as they write: “… we filed a complaint at WIPO under the dispute resolution procedure designed for cyber-squatting cases like this one. We are hopeful of a result from the WIPO procedure soon, and we will keep you updated.”
… I guess that means that we’ll be updated too?
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You’re right, that is pretty stupid.
I hope they don’t get their domain back!
It would be also good to get their .org domain :D
ongoing police investigation of The Pirate Bay?
What’s still ongoing about it?
Lol. How stupid can you get?
Hey is anyone else having trouble getting onto tracker-invites.org?
Cheers.
This is very entertaining.
I feel like I should be paying for it.
Lol, those anti-pirates… they are so stupid.
Couldn’t this kind of mail snooping be considered illegal under Swedish law?
@frob: “Couldn’t this kind of mail snooping be considered illegal under Swedish law?”
they are not snooping if it is sent to their domain…. on the contrary, they could file to have the .org domain blacklisted for spamming their domain ;-)
The Man in different countries have been getting weird ideas about “series of tubes” and said tubes having to be “treated as a whole” during legal proceedings (”facilitating” online piracy).
Facing great ineptitude of our very rulers, a worst-case scenario might appear: copyright-bigots finally get an excuse to engage TPB in time- and money-costly legal proceedings. Hope I’m overly paranoid on that one.
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In Norway all e-mails are considered to be public.
It’s not illegal to take someones e-mail and show its content to someone.
The only thing illegal is hacking the e-mail account.
whooptee freakin’do. You losers are grasping at straws when post idiot crap like this.
Confusing .com with .org is hardly stupid, especially when .com was valid for a long time not so long ago. Both issues are rather serious, well-known problems of email communication.
Well… I sure hope ALL who works at Anti-Pirates corps. are this stupid.
@Anti-Anti-Pirates, tracker-invites is working fine
How can they say their site was cybersquatted when it was their own fault that they forgot to renew the domain?
hahaha..
lol, nice stuff. I love it.
lol!
[quote comment="221826"]Confusing .com with .org is hardly stupid, especially when .com was valid
for a long time not so long ago. [/quote]
I’d call a year a bit more than ‘not so long ago’
And so it begins. It will be interesting if their financial records were stolen and released to see just how much revenue they lose to pirates when compared to the ridiculously astronomical figures they like to quote to justify their mostly illegal anti-piracy actions.
I wouldnt
@11
And does everyone have a right to open your paper-mail up there in the communist Norway? Did anyone protest against such law? Or you have become sheeple on the govt. dough there…
PB has every right to open e-mail sent to it by stupidity, but if #11 is correct about the Norway law it is THE BigBrother of 1984 live and now…
lol WIPO they shouldn’t expect their domain back anytime soon. :)
hahahaha
maybe they’ll get their domain back if they give us sealand
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