Poor Anti-Pirates: E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email Gets Leaked

Written by Ernesto on November 23, 2007 

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.

E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email LeaksLast 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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71 Responses

1 Nov 23, 2007 at 12:07 by Anon

You’re right, that is pretty stupid.

2 Nov 23, 2007 at 12:20 by Black

I hope they don’t get their domain back!

It would be also good to get their .org domain :D

3 Nov 23, 2007 at 12:20 by KungfuTornado

ongoing police investigation of The Pirate Bay?

What’s still ongoing about it?

4 Nov 23, 2007 at 12:21 by Anti-Anti-Pirates

Lol. How stupid can you get?
Hey is anyone else having trouble getting onto tracker-invites.org?
Cheers.

5 Nov 23, 2007 at 12:22 by xlynx

This is very entertaining.
I feel like I should be paying for it.

6 Nov 23, 2007 at 12:27 by anon

Lol, those anti-pirates… they are so stupid.

7 Nov 23, 2007 at 13:24 by frob

Couldn’t this kind of mail snooping be considered illegal under Swedish law?

8 Nov 23, 2007 at 13:33 by anon

@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 ;-)

9 Nov 23, 2007 at 13:50 by frob

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.

10 Nov 23, 2007 at 15:27 by LiquidEyes

L. .KL M;D/., ‘;WE23[=JHC;[P ;[PSW./C

; ,.VC

11 Nov 23, 2007 at 16:01 by Damn

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.

12 Nov 23, 2007 at 16:08 by Anonymous

whooptee freakin’do. You losers are grasping at straws when post idiot crap like this.

13 Nov 23, 2007 at 16:13 by Anonymous

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.

14 Nov 23, 2007 at 16:24 by Deimon

Well… I sure hope ALL who works at Anti-Pirates corps. are this stupid.

15 Nov 23, 2007 at 16:27 by OblivionMage

@Anti-Anti-Pirates, tracker-invites is working fine

16 Nov 23, 2007 at 16:45 by theninjasquad

How can they say their site was cybersquatted when it was their own fault that they forgot to renew the domain?

17 Nov 23, 2007 at 17:34 by Axel

hahaha..

18 Nov 23, 2007 at 17:51 by serrebi

lol, nice stuff. I love it.

19 Nov 23, 2007 at 17:56 by jackal

lol!

20 Nov 23, 2007 at 18:24 by Ben Jones

[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’

21 Nov 23, 2007 at 18:28 by Gir

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.

22 Nov 23, 2007 at 18:33 by willriker

I wouldnt

23 Nov 23, 2007 at 18:53 by Dusanmal

@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…

24 Nov 23, 2007 at 19:03 by Zoness

lol WIPO they shouldn’t expect their domain back anytime soon. :)

25 Nov 23, 2007 at 19:06 by Anonymous

hahahaha

maybe they’ll get their domain back if they give us sealand

26 Nov 23, 2007 at 19:09 by @Dusanmal

I think he meant that you may show an e-mail sent to you to anyone you want. The norwegian law is actually pretty strict about reading other peoples e-mail.

27 Nov 23, 2007 at 19:39 by Anonymous

They must have an idiot to manage their IT. A domain can easily be excluded from send - meaning any emails going to *@ifpi.com will be denied. A simple configuration.

28 Nov 23, 2007 at 19:44 by Anonymous

Ben Jones, call it a banana if you will. Who here would notice it, if the mail doesn’t bounce and who does not filter mailer-daemon responses anyway? As funny as this case may be, it has very little to do with stupidity.

29 Nov 23, 2007 at 20:34 by Ben

[quote comment="221804"]L. .KL M;D/., ‘;WE23[=JHC;[P ;[PSW./C

; ,.VC[/quote]
Man, you really went to town on that keyboard of yours.

With kind regards
Ben

30 Nov 23, 2007 at 21:24 by tbh

why don’t they post their emails on their frontpage instead, saves the hassle d=D

31 Nov 23, 2007 at 23:27 by eh?

“… I guess that means that we’ll be updated too?”

LOL!!!

32 Nov 24, 2007 at 00:26 by steve trolla

It should come as no surprise the folks in the IFPI are blithering morons. Who else would aspire to work there? Next stop, civil service (and those people are really really intelligent, aren’t they?)

Under the DNDRP, this IS NOT cyber-squatting. The IFPI.COM domain was legitimately registered for the use of the International Federation of Pirate Interests. The other IFPI is abusing the domain name dispute resolution policy to further their own selfish interests.

IFPI can go suck a d*ck.

33 Nov 24, 2007 at 01:09 by Anonymous

arrrrrrgh!

34 Nov 24, 2007 at 02:27 by jingi

[quote comment="221826"]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.[/quote]

exactly, normal people set up their “maillist” and forgets about it, it’s a real common “mistake” i usually get called out to clients complaining about “email errors”.

but still, it’s awsome =)

35 Nov 24, 2007 at 02:34 by reth sinns

They wont ever win a war on the net. There so stupid to even try. Take a server down in the USA and someone with a backup in France brings it back up in a few hours.

36 Nov 24, 2007 at 04:49 by CypherFusion

They aren’t stupid! They stopped sending email to anything@ifpi.com. It was jdoe@ifpi.com that got the leak :(

37 Nov 24, 2007 at 05:31 by Free Pirate Allaince

lol

It would be nice to see something new on IFPI.com

38 Nov 24, 2007 at 06:44 by arkitex

Apparently they’ve managed to get a judge to shut down the site:
http://pttbt.ca/2007/11/23/anti-piracy-organization-shuts-down-popular-website.html

39 Nov 24, 2007 at 08:40 by Tom Baker

Hahaha! Jolly ole good one! That one almost made me come to tears. Back to me jellybabies. Cheers!

40 Nov 24, 2007 at 08:42 by Jerry

I can’t wait for the update!! >:)

41 Nov 24, 2007 at 11:25 by Squeak

Beware the screenshot…Nothing dies on the tubes…

42 Nov 24, 2007 at 16:10 by John

lol, they must have read only to not send it to anything@ifpi.com

43 Nov 24, 2007 at 16:20 by Cartman

That’s hella sweet that the IFPI is letting the world (uploaders/downloaders) know there next move. Next time the next Oinky won’t get caught off guard. IFPI hella suks.

44 Nov 24, 2007 at 16:36 by bittrucker

I.F.P.I. = Innocuous.Fartknocking.Perverted. Invaders.

45 Nov 24, 2007 at 17:21 by Capt. Picard

[quote comment="222628"]I.F.P.I. = Innocuous.Fartknocking.Perverted. Invaders.[/quote]

Agreed. Although my cup of earl grey would be: Inferior.Feces.Puny.Imps.

46 Nov 24, 2007 at 17:35 by Legs with wide open canyon

Can’t….hahaha….stop….hehehe…laughing…..whoohoohahahhehehe…..ha

47 Nov 24, 2007 at 17:51 by Al Koholic

Funny! Ladies and gentlemen.I present you my version;
IFPI-Impoverished Freaking Putang Ignorants

48 Nov 24, 2007 at 18:14 by Analbum cover

It really stands for Idiodic Fu_king Pu_sy Imbeciles. But the other names are good too. Lol. Great to have you back Capt. Picard! Hurry up and bring out Star Trek 11: The search for Data’s intelligence.

49 Nov 24, 2007 at 18:27 by Dou Key Schick

[quote comment="222700"]Great to have you back Capt. Picard! Hurry up and bring out Star Trek 11: The search for Data’s intelligence.[/quote]

Or Star Trek 11: The search for IFPI intelligence.

.

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50 Nov 24, 2007 at 18:31 by willriker

ROFLMAO!!!!

51 Nov 24, 2007 at 18:44 by Anon

*chuckles*

52 Nov 24, 2007 at 19:11 by Big Bird & Oscar the grouch

There’s too many bleepholes that work at bleeping IFPI. Those motherbleeping employees need to go out and get bleeping laid, and leave all the Bit Torrent folks alone. Were just volunteering our time to help promote entertainment. Those motherbleepers just piss people off. Bleep them. I hear like 50 songs on the radio a day and have thoundsands of songs memorized in my head. Why don’t those bleeping anti-pirate bleepholes sue me for the songs I memorized. Go ahead and strip my motherbleeping memories IFPI bleepholes.

53 Nov 24, 2007 at 19:20 by Beavis and no Butthead

Uh like yeah. Bleep them and there cornholio work. huhuhuhuhu

54 Nov 24, 2007 at 19:27 by The John

It would be [quote comment="222738"]There’s too many bleepholes that work at bleeping IFPI. Those motherbleeping employees need to go out and get bleeping laid, and leave all the Bit Torrent folks alone. Were just volunteering our time to help promote entertainment. Those motherbleepers just piss people off. Bleep them. I hear like 50 songs on the radio a day and have thoundsands of songs memorized in my head. Why don’t those bleeping anti-pirate bleepholes sue me for the songs I memorized. Go ahead and strip my motherbleeping memories IFPI bleepholes.[/quote]
I agree, but it would be extremely difficult for the anti pirate organizations to confiscate human memories (another form of a hard drive) without causing brain damage or commiting murder. And yes we all like to say truely, deeply, madly bleep them!

55 Nov 24, 2007 at 19:32 by Hangover my hammies

LOL

56 Nov 24, 2007 at 20:59 by Chef

The IFPI are a bunch of ole farts. Fudge em.

57 Nov 24, 2007 at 21:13 by Anonymous

It won’t be there last mistake. They are more than capable of dropping the ball from time to time.

58 Nov 24, 2007 at 21:25 by Jiggafellez

I don’t usually post any comments but the last several ones have had me in tears of joy. I couldn’t stop laughing for 15 min. A big thank you to all of you. And to those who know me. I’m still around and will be back soon in full force. Trust me.

59 Nov 24, 2007 at 22:49 by Anon

Long live Jiggafellez! Good to see ya again. Your presence has been missed. Don’t take too long.

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60 Nov 26, 2007 at 23:08 by TeamHCN

hahahaha that’s the funniest thing I’ve read all week. It’s like the MediaDefender scandal all over again. :)

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