Media Defender Endorses TorrentFreak’s Great Work

Written by enigmax on July 13, 2007 

TorrentFreak’s recent articles about Media Defender have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, surely proving beyond any doubt that they must be an incredibly popular company doing great things for the BitTorrent community. In recognition of our great work, Media Defender has re-directed its p2p.net domain to us, an action which has us bursting with pride.

Any of our regular readers here at TorrentFreak will appreciate the high regard in which we hold anti-piracy company Media Defender.

In the past we have delighted in the way they setup fake BitTorrent trackers and we have waxed-lyrical over their fake video download service, MiiVi. We were so disappointed when they closed it down almost immediately and were so surprised when our friends denied that they were going to do anything bad with the site.

Naturally, we were really concerned that we might have damaged the great relationship between TorrentFreak and Media Defender so we set out to try and limit the damage by publishing a puff-piece on their plans to get into the P2P business. After this, we thought we were getting back on the right track to repair our relationship, a situation close to our hearts.

After discovering that Media Defender spent thousands of dollars buying the prized p2p.net domain, we forgot all about their attempts to sabotage file-sharing in the past and suddenly and inexplicably realized that they must have been a friend of P2P file-sharing all along. We are so proud to have been a part of their success.

So imagine our unbridled glee this morning when we discovered that Media Defender (in a move which surely endorses us as the internet’s premier Media Defender news and information resource) has diverted its hugely expensive P2P.net domain to us, lowly TorrentFreak. Humbled doesn’t even come close. Money can’t buy this type of endorsement and to have Media Defender align itself with us in this way is simply a dream come true.

We have no idea what we did to deserve this huge honor but we hope that it somehow represents a ‘thank you’ for the great free PR we have brought the California-based company.

Even if you stop diverting to us at some point, we’d like to say “Thanks guys, we love you too” and we look forward to our invitations to your Christmas party :)

Arrrrrrrrr!!!!

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26 Jul 14, 2007 at 03:51 by Cerium

So the forward it here for a while and use the good reputation of this site to gain business, maybe even get it indexed as a part of this site in google.

Then they make a clone of this site (similar enough to not notice, different enough to avoid a lawsuit).

They host downloads and reap their ip harvest. They can do this buy putting an announcement on their clone site telling everyone about their new download system.

27 Jul 14, 2007 at 07:22 by Benedict

I suspect they are just waiting to see which flag you run up*. I gotta admit this blog/news-site has high quality output and is a MUST READ for anybody seriously trying to enforce online copyright measures.

Benedict

* It’s a pirate metaphor

28 Jul 14, 2007 at 07:33 by WARNING

PLEASE DO NOT TEST P2P.NET

MEDIA DEFENDER RECORDS IP INFORMATION, AND IT’S INTERESTING TO NOTE THEY DID NOT POINT THE IP DIRECTLY TO TORRENTFREAK, BUT IT ACTUALLY GOES TO THEIR SERVERS AND THEN IS REDIRECTED.

THESE GUYS ARE CROOKED AS SNAKES, BELIEVE ME, AS LONG AS THEY THINK YOUR UP TO NO GOOD THEY’LL TAKE DOWN YOUR IP.

29 Jul 14, 2007 at 11:42 by David

@ Warning, So? Even if they are recording our IPS, what’s the point, they would not have solid evidence of us committing any copyright infrigment, we could be merely searching for p2p in google, we could be merely intrested in the scene or torrent news, they cannot convict us based on the fact that we “went to their site and got redirected to a torrent related BLOG”. Besides, doesn’t recording our IP without us signing or acknowledging any of this be illegal as they are stealing our personal information?

30 Jul 14, 2007 at 14:06 by ephraim

this is just a diversion while they do more nasty work??

31 Jul 15, 2007 at 04:15 by An0nym0us

Yawn..

32 Jul 16, 2007 at 03:59 by Jackson

They were probably appreciative of the way we at TF pointed out that MediaDefender were themselves pirating movies Warner Brothers Movie “300″.

Here’s to Randy Saaf: He should be awarded to be the #1 Pirate in America: Distributing copies of “300″ right under the noses of the MPAA. Randy has balls the size of Jupiter! Let’s join Randy in laughing under their noses.

33 Jul 16, 2007 at 04:02 by Jackson

Maybe Randy has made a deal with the MPAA not to prosecute him: He’ll sell the IPs of visitors to TF.com? Better popup a warning to anyone directed through P2P.net?

After all: If Randy was willing to betray Warner Brothers, he’s willing to betray anyone.

34 Jul 17, 2007 at 04:20 by Brad

If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.

35 Jul 17, 2007 at 04:21 by Spam

[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]
[quote comment="133588"]If the content was made readily available with no DRM protection, and we could do what we wanted and when we wanted AND WHERE we wanted with the content, there would be NO problems with anyone. This only makes pirates out of everyday people trying to get what they want, which isn’t easily accessible. I’m sure employees at Media Defender steal content too. Heck, even my 82 year old grandma uses LimeWire and BitTorrent for old stuff she saw in the past that isn’t available anywhere but these services.[/quote]

36 Jul 21, 2007 at 20:33 by Mapi

Dude, That’s a hell of a quote. TorrentFreak, great work, god blesses the BitTorrent network XD

37 Nov 15, 2007 at 15:44 by Kobói

[quote comment="132189"]1. Redirect to torrent news site.
2. Set up fake news site.
3. Stop redirecting.
4. ???
5. Profit.[/quote]

genius, can’t stop laughing at this one. SP rules

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