Poor Anti-Pirates: E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email Gets Leaked
Written by Ernesto on November 23, 2007The 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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71 Responses
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.
L. .KL M;D/., ‘;WE23[=JHC;[P ;[PSW./C
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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
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.
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.
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.
[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
why don’t they post their emails on their frontpage instead, saves the hassle d=D
“… I guess that means that we’ll be updated too?”
LOL!!!
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.
arrrrrrgh!
[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 =)
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.
They aren’t stupid! They stopped sending email to anything@ifpi.com. It was jdoe@ifpi.com that got the leak :(
lol
It would be nice to see something new on IFPI.com
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
Hahaha! Jolly ole good one! That one almost made me come to tears. Back to me jellybabies. Cheers!
I can’t wait for the update!! >:)
Beware the screenshot…Nothing dies on the tubes…
lol, they must have read only to not send it to anything@ifpi.com
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.
I.F.P.I. = Innocuous.Fartknocking.Perverted. Invaders.
[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.
Can’t….hahaha….stop….hehehe…laughing…..whoohoohahahhehehe…..ha
Funny! Ladies and gentlemen.I present you my version;
IFPI-Impoverished Freaking Putang Ignorants
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.
[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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ROFLMAO!!!!
*chuckles*
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.
Uh like yeah. Bleep them and there cornholio work. huhuhuhuhu
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!
LOL
The IFPI are a bunch of ole farts. Fudge em.
It won’t be there last mistake. They are more than capable of dropping the ball from time to time.
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.
Long live Jiggafellez! Good to see ya again. Your presence has been missed. Don’t take too long.
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hahahaha that’s the funniest thing I’ve read all week. It’s like the MediaDefender scandal all over again. :)
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