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… carried out in support of the activity, such as the famous MediaDefender leaked emails, multiple attacks on the IFPI, and more recently …
… paid millions of dollars to anti-piracy outfits such as MediaDefender who in return promise to do all they can to distribute fake and … of two popular attack methods used by companies such as MediaDefender. The first is a ‘piece attack’ where the hostile leecher attempts …
… the owner of infamous anti-piracy spoofing company MediaDefender, announced that it had acquired SafeNet’s anti-piracy tracking … Dimitri Villard, it seems that the sullied names of both MediaDefender and Media Sentry will be consigned to the archives as the company …
… everyone will recall the terrible mauling experienced by MediaDefender after their confidential emails leaked onto the Internet, and …
… sponsor Digg is no stranger to BitTorrent. Before the MediaDefender debacle Digg’s weekly video podcast Diggnation was published on …
… purporting to come from notorious anti-piracy company MediaDefender. The email, which is simply addressed “Dear User!” claims the … through to simply browsing the sites. Of course, citing MediaDefender is a nonsense, since that company doesn’t get involved in …
… from the advertisements on some BitTorrent sites, and MediaDefender‘s porn marketing experience, there is money to be made in this …
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