Prototype Anti-Piracy Tool Revealed and Taken Offline
Written by enigmax on August 11, 2008The existence of a prototype management system for anti-piracy company ‘Logistep’ was revealed at the weekend. The online system called ‘Logistep Data Management Tool’, was located at eparken.com but since the revelations the site has been taken down. It is still available in limited form via Google’s cache.
The P2P community is becoming more aware of the anti-piracy tracking company Logistep. Infamous for working with lawyers across Europe gathering information about many thousands of alleged copyright infringements, Logistep is quickly becoming a household name in the anti-P2P world. It has been declared to operate illegally in Italy and has fallen foul of Swiss privacy laws, but it carries on operating regardless.
Now, thanks to a Gulli investigation, the existence of a prototype anti-p2p management system has been revealed, which seems to be being developed for Logistep to more effectively manage its growing offensive against alleged file-sharers. Gulli received a tipoff to visit the site at eparken.com which although appeared incomplete, seemed to be fairly operational.
Headed with a Logistep banner and entitled ‘Logistep Data Management Tool’, one could be forgiven for linking the tool with the anti-piracy company of the same name. However, just to be certain, Gulli dug a little deeper, checking the WHOIS record of the site which revealed the registrant as Joly Nkondo Zacharie, at ‘Händelstraße 25′ in Karlsruhe. A German subsidiary of the Swiss-based Logistep is reported at the same address. Searches on ‘Händelstraße 25′ connect to both Logistep and Joly Nkondo Zacharie, who has his name present in the eparken.com WHOIS. The connection to Logistep seems unavoidable.
The site, since taken down but available in limited form via Google’s cache, appears to offer management facilities for those chasing alleged copyright infringers, including accommodation to reduce ‘fines’ and payment periods if the accused digs in his heels when confronted.
Additional features of the system include being able to sort alleged infringers in the database by location and their corresponding ISPs. It is also possible to sort by the number of users who have actually paid up following threats. In the ‘Call Center’ section could be found receipts for payment of ‘fines’ and the ability to change the terms of the compensation demands.
Logistep is absolutely adamant that it runs its operations in a completely flawless manner, using systems that produce 100% perfect results so it is of some interest that this online system has been developed with WYSIWYG Web Builder, which will be seen as some as a very unprofessional way to create a website.
Calls to the administrators of eparken.com for clarification have gone unanswered.
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Those b*stards!
Oh my. Can’t believe them people. Bastard x99.
Logistep has been known for spying on the p2p community for years, this is just one more step to their & MAFIAA’s final collapse.
Btw, isn’t it weird that only torrentfreak and couple of other internet media report this?
THESE FREAKS BREACH PRIVACY LAWS AND NO ONE CARES?!
Anyone feeling to mailbomb this email?
info@logistepag.com
Just wait till they see the new DDoS manager im making.. oh let the games begin.
Forget mailbombs and DDoSes. Some enterprising script kiddie needs to Media Defender their asses.
Logistep, them rats deserve a lot more than what happened to Media Defender, you’re not going anywhere greedy bastards!
@ #5 – Only a temporary solution, at best.
@#6 – Agreed!
Hopefully their own illegal actions will come to light in courts before their operation is completed.
they deserve to die just for that horrible banner.. what the hell is that.. a batman sign?
STOP.. STOP! BATMAN SYMBOL!!
As far as I know Logistep, Media Defender etc can’t work in Canada either.. No license..
Got a good chuckle out of #9.
ddos without commanding a botnet is fail. grow your army first before you gonna go to war
ddos theCRIMINALbay
I HATE THIS CRAP!!! Sue them for harassment and profiling!!!
The future of p2p is encryption.
And mother-fuckers like this anti-piracy retards, will get homeless or banged up in some jail!
They can’t stop all the pirates, we’re everywere!
Cant agree more with #15
http://www.alphboard.co.cc/blog
Well said brother
I didn’t completely understand the major significance of this?
Ok, so it’s nice we got a look at one there crappy applications but is there something else I missed?
What we need to do is get on the streets and protest, march with pickets. As long as we don’t do this, nobody is going to know that there is opposition. The newspapers will not tell people of this – the newspapers have a vested interest in copyright. The people need to protest, to inform everybody that it is wrong.
you missed the part where they suck my jagonasaurus.
I don’t really understand it either, #YLS#. It doesn’t strike me as much of a discovery given the site clearly advertised “Logistep” and “zacharie joly” within it?
Not sure what point I’m missing either.
@sonofodin/Underlin: What’s encryption going to do for anyone? Please explain.
What we need to do is get on the streets and pro-test, march with pickets. As long as we don’t do this, nobody is going to know that there is opposition. The newspapers will not tell people of this – the newspapers have a vested interest in copyright. The people need to pro-test, to inform everybody that it is wrong.
If we don’t protest, it will always seem like there is no opposition. As a first step, we need to get on the streets with pickets.
ya pickets and pitchforks and torches…
mabye some swords.. bats.. automatic rifles.. chainsaws.. flamethrowers.. explosives..
yeah.. sons a bitches cant ignore us!
@22
No, just pickets. Everybody can make a picket. To march on the streets with pickets is the first necessary step towards taking action.
it is a violation of the privacy law in canada , and that is a federal offense, IF ANY CANUCK WAS DOING ANYTHING THEY SPIED ON.
@23
This is why we need to start marching on the streets with pickets! It doesn’t matter if you’re just one person, just get as many people out there as possible. Even one person marching alone is enough.
@23
This is why we need to start marching on the streets with pi-ckets! It doesn’t matter if you’re just one person, just get as many people out there as possible. Even one person marching alone is enough.
@Anonymous – I gather that you already do this yourself… marching the streets, chanting with banner in hand? Stfu, please. File-sharing is a long way from that big of a deal, enough to warrant a ridiculous prance through the streets about it. It’s quite possible you’d look ridiculous doing it and actually disuade people from association because of it.
Lead by example. mofo.
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About this story. Was the eparken.com site actually hacked here? Seems like the it would make more sense this way when reading between the lines.
@27
It’s not just about file-sharing. It’s about copyright in general. It is a stifling of this culture, a control of media, and so on. Copyright has gone crazy, and is curtailing many liberties. It indeed does warrant a march through the streets.
When will these idiots give up? its only a matter of time before they tick off a dangerious part of the internet, there are some hackers that have the power to shutdown an entire building, these logistep fools need to stop before its to late.
“Hackers that have the power to shutdown an entire building” Won’t happen.
Yeah dude we dont need MO Anti Piracy tools thats for sure.
JT
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com
What if we untied world wide to download and seed a single specified file on spread cross several trackers, lets also max out our ISP bandwidth to show isps we dont want throttling lets bring the mafiaa and ISPs to their news we could also let the mafiaa know about our actions show them the vast numbers of people in an online protest
*as some as should be by some as
Um isn’t their logo copyright infringement of the batman logo? Pretty friggin similar if you ask me.
I think it’s pretty unprofessional and subjective to call some third-party actor (WYSIWYG Web Builder) “unprofessional” in your news article. How about a little more class there enigmax.
wow, it really doesn’t take much to get you simpletons to reveal just how stupid and hypocritical you are. Lol, you’re all a bunch of rats, chittering in the darkness before the traps are sprung.
The solution isn’t to take down just the company. DDoS and mail bombs won’t work either. All it does it give them legal leverage and all they need to do is filter their traffic.
You have to go after the unscrupulous individuals running the show.
Otherwise they just do what MediaDefender did. Hop in their car and drive to the office of the next company that happens to do the same illegal shit for the greedy bastards.
I suggest posting a website identifying their staff.
Due to the fact, that a lot of the messages on the page were german, it´s for sure hard to know whats all about. one message on the page was for example
“Court happens when:
-after the cease&desist letter and 2 reminders (if no reaction)
- infringer refuses the action
Answers:”Wouldn´t it be better to lower the fine? And only then court”
To understand this, in germany in mostly works like this (only examples!):
Letter 1: 200 €
Letter 2: 600 €(because they need to write again)
Letter 3: again 200€
they don´t like courts. but i think they do like money :)
@ 36 – Rintaro
Funny as you smell like the only rat here… How about you go scurry back to your sewer?
I don’t get these people, a P2P based blog and they come to make potshots. How productive and interesting lives they must lead… not.
#37
Good idea identifying the people behind this, they obtain peoples personal details illegally in order to intimidate and threaten them.
I would love to get hold of all the personal details of those shitheads at Davenport Lyons also.
Funny how all these companies are trying to limit piracy and I thought that the Warner Music Group proposed plan to basically tax internet users was a good idea.
I was debating this dude on a forum about this back and forth and couldn’t admit I was wrong.
What the fuck you talking about Parkside701? You stupid or something?
how is indentifying individuals going to in any way stop companies being paid by other companies to jump sharks, i have no opprobrium towards any individual worker , after all, its just a juurb.
fwiw, we are all potentially working for someone who isn’t all that nice.
excuse me , i seem to have left some lasagna flying.
double post to acknowledge weed and torrent based dyslexia.
(you could tell by the pixels.. right?)
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