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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*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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