Torrentfreak - Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public
 

The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak:
MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public
Written by Enigmax & Ernesto on September 15, 2007

When TorrentFreak reported that Media Defender (MD) was behind the video site
MiiVi, they cast doubt on us. Now, in what is surely the biggest BitTorrent leak
ever, nearly 700mb of MD’s emails have gone public. When MD’s Randy Saaf found
out we rumbled MiiVi he said, “This is really ****ed.” This is too, but much more
so.

When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video
Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and,
as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would, we checked and double
checked our sources. We said, with some confidence:

Media Defender, a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA, RIAA and
several independent media production companies, just launched their very own
video upload service called “miivi.com”. The sole purpose of the site is to trap
people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so.

However, in comments made to Ars technica, Media Defender’s Randy Saaf chose to
rubbish our claims, calling it an ‘accidentally un-secured internal project’.

From the emails we cannot be sure that it’s an entrapment site or that it is related
to the MPAA (perhaps it’s a legit a P2P video client?), but it does look suspicious.

Unfortunately for Media Defender - a company dedicated to mitigating the effects
of internet leaks - they can do nothing about being the subject of the biggest
BitTorrent leak of all time. Over 700mb of their own internal emails, dating back
over 6 months have been leaked to the internet in what will be a devastating blow
to the company. Many are very recent, having September 2007 dates and the
majority involve the most senior people in the company. Apparently this is not the
first time that a MediaDefender email leaked onto the Internet.