SCNR

Not saying I’m against moderation (TF really needs it based on the quality of some of the posts here…shudders, just finished writing two long posts educating people on history….)

Could be because I’m using FF w/noscript and I only enabled torrentfreak…)

Good luck looking through everything (must be tiring)

P.S. would it be possible to not make the greater than and less than signs automatically be removed cause I like to use them to make a X shape as a smiley and sometimes use them in comparisons of speed…I know its to remove html….maybe make it slightly smarter and see if it is a valid html code before removing it? If that would be too confusing to implement, nvm.

my above comment which only consisted of 2 links and one short who dares was “awaiting mod” too, and see: It’s there!

If the post is not spam, not utter gibberish, and not just an advert, then it’ll be allowed, and it’ll be in the position it would be in had it not happened.

No censorship, just trying to make the comments section readable, and somewhat on topic. At most, if i’m out of town, it may take 24 hours to approve, but usually it’s no more than 3-4 hours.

Actually, very few “1st world” countries (by US def) use any form of solid material as backing for money anymore…..

as for back on topic:
I’d rather not see mediadefender gaining revenue from this, cmon people, if we don’t download it, their company would lose money, and die, they deserve to be bankrupt for the evils they’ve done!!! The “let’s download and kill off server money” is a non-argument cause whatever server costs there are, are paid by the sponsors ads, so if the sponsors ads aren’t played, they will lose investment and would eventually run out of money simply maintaining a not used system.

yeah, those liberal revision3 guys are much better then the dutch(!) [that is NOT german so surely no "nazis"!] guys that prefer to keep an eye on those comments that fit a certain sheme?

It’s so nice to see the comment section full of advertising shit for sure because nobody cares!

http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3/

And those liberal douche Louderback has not even the guts to give MD hell for their cyber crime activity.
I prefer “dutch nazis” anytime over such morons and if TF’s measures keep some (allegedly) shit from guys like you out of the comment section: better then ever!

And yet you keep commenting.

I don’t see anything wrong with this. In fact, it’s a great idea, isn’t it? Why would anyone oppose it? Free music in exchange for –maybe– seeing an icon when it plays if you’re looking at the player.

I’m for ending this stupid war between the record industry and the users. This is quite a jump in “our” direction. Whether its enough or not is one thing that not everyone will agree upon, but they certainly ought to be applauded for taking this step.

Although MediaDefender is authorized to share those MP3s on P2P networks, YOU are not.
–#23-endQuote–

I’ll take the opposing view. P2P neworks, by design, cause the downloaders to share the files, even before they finish downloading. MediaDefender knows this. Through their very actions, they are thereby permitting (licensing) the downloader to redistribute it.

the killa app next summer will be an ad tag stripper. get coding now

http://www.Privacy-Center.net

wad if for the first few file its normal, then they start spamming it with virus/spyware/adware/etc like in LimeWire!!!

1) “We are the authorized on-line distributor”,
2) “We’re the only place you can download music without getting sued”,
3) PROFIT!

Sounds like the music industry has finally found their new internet distribution model.

I don’t think VLC will show this obnoxious shit, which is a good thing because media players that have these ‘extra features’ always end up with a zillion security holes. Look at Windows Media Player, that fucking thing isn’t safe to use unless you ripped the mp3 yourself. Lots of files from P2P when played in WMP will open your web browser and fuck your computer up big-time. Any media player that has these ‘features’ is total bloatware shit in my opinion.

JT
http://www.FireMe.To/udi

But well, since MD tried so hard to catch some pirates I don’t like them at all… perhaps another ‘anti-piracy’ group should DoS their server :p

1) its actually quite a good idea, and something that i was actually working on for a while myself, but school and stuff made in unfeasable to actually work on
2) of course mediadefender are allowed to share the tracks, its highly unlikely they would have a contract to prevent piracy of tracks with out the label’s permission to distribute/download the tracks, and as that falls under civil, not criminal law, thats an acceptable situation
3) people that say you could be sued for sharing the file onwards, its also unlikely, as although techically it may not be authorzied for you to share by the end users, however, i expect if it ever came to caught, one could argue that the fact the legit copy is on a p2p network acts as implicit consent as the architecture of peer to peer systems means that users seed on whilst downloading

well.. thats what i think of it anyway

Although MediaDefender is authorized to share those MP3s on P2P networks, YOU are not.

Unless the record company released the copyright of these songs to the public domain or Creative Commons (extremely unlikely!) — these MP3s are still copyrighted files and therefore all the Draconian penalties for copyright infringement still apply.

Assuming that MediaDefender is completely successful, then virtually ALL the MP3s on P2P networks will be ones they put out themselves. This will make nailing P2P users so much easier, since the ‘infringing’ files would already be identified and tagged in advance.

This resembles common police sting operation tactics: most of the child porn that exists on the internet today is put there (and closely monitored) by the authorities. Visit a CP honeypot site, download a JPEG — even if just out of innocent curiosity — and you can expect to wake up in the middle of the night by the sound of machinegun-toting FBI smashing down your door.

Just because all the incriminating material originated from the police makes no difference whatsoever. The same probably applies to MP3s that originate from MediaDefender.

@14: I only there was some way to uniquely identify a music file by running the data through some algorithm. It could create a small sequence of characters, let’s call it a hash, that would represent the file. If we were to change even a single byte in the file, the entire “hash” would change. Damn, if only there was a way. I guess we’ll have to wait until the future.

Asshats.

Also, nice powerpoint, douches.

btw mediadefender must die

it’s a shitty flash animation showing how bad they fuck up Limewire. The ending is just priceless….I gotta upload this to jewtube

http://www.mediadefender.com/marketing/MediaDefenderP2PDemo.exe

http://www.mediadefender.com/marketing/

If they do this then they can make money two different ways.

1) They charge the record labels for marketing and distributing mp3s.

2) They charge the record labels for the list of IP addresses of the file sharers who are sharing these exact same mp3s.

Isn’t it time for another mediadefender Website breach? ;)

As for Randy Saaf, Octavio Herrara, and the rest of the scum at Media Defender, I would make it a point to go out of my way to not only boycott anything they offer but to continue them along the road to ruin. They must be crushed, shown no mercy, and be given no quarter for their crimes.

Never forget, never forgive.

Arrr. Ramming speed, mateys!

As well there are licensed sites that sell MP3s.

It depends on what software is used? Not anymore, since many are distributing and selling authorized files on same.

Btw the only way they’d get me to download 90% of today’s music is to pay me to do so. Then I’d delete it afterward.

no body wnat it even pirated from “legitimate” pirates?

Why does that rember me about:
“At the end of the session the EMI bosses thanked them for their comments and told them to help themselves to a big pile of CDs sitting on a table. But none of the teens took any of the CDs, even though they were free. “That was the moment we realised the game was completely up,” says a person who was there.”
and
“”P2P is not piracy, it’s marketing.
In fact, if your music or movie is NOT being downloaded, you should be WORRIED!
If you can’t even give it away for free, how do you expect to sell it, stupid?”

so those label dinosaurs thing if they spam their shitty products now that will safe them from death?!
What a joke!
Even james@war observed this in his “Popstar”-song:
“I sing canned music that my label feeds me,oversaturate the market till everyone is sick of me,[oh trust me that will happen]”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSlqI1AVUk

In what strange world are we livin in? (Clealy Pirated Sentence from Ernesto)

INSTEAD, why not boycott, and maybe, I don’t know, chew up their server some other way (not condoning anything btw, just saying how short-sighted some of you are here)

You’re only help promote the growth of evil corporate “sanctioned” p2p rising. Also helping Media Defender stay afloat.

http://www.savetheinternet.com

I think you mean ‘DoS-ing’, not ‘DDoS-ing’. The recent denial of service attack from MediaDefender originated from a single server. Nothing distributed about it.

Apparently some sort of marketing-thing. The header of the file says the following:
“”The Way I Are” sponsored by McDonald’s-go to http://www.McDonalds.com/music to see exclusive Timbaland concert footage and win backstage tickets to hang with Timbaland at his next show!” and it has an image attached to the mp3, which makes my itunes show like this:
http://i26.tinypic.com/33286lu.jpg