Comments on: The most crazy tech story since the HP pretexting scandal

Maybe temporary insanity will serve as a defense strategy but the emerging story of the weekend denial-of-service attack against Revision3 boggles the imagination.

[jc_cam]

Does anyone else see the irony in this? Media Defender is one of the companies that the RIAA hires to inject bad torrents into the network to "curb piracy". So, we are going to prevent people from stealing music by . . . stealing bandwidth. I really hope someone at the EFF is watching this!

[fredmenace]

It's worse than that: MediaDefender appearantly THOUGHT they were responding to a civil infraction by commiting multiple felonies. In reality, they were responding to perfectly legal activity by committing multiple felonies.

[Dalkorian]

Why are you covering up who MediaDefender is? I had to look it up as a sanity check, I knew I recognized that name from somewhere. MediaDefender is the shady company that tries to trick people into downloading fake P2P content so they can turn over the IP address to the RIAA and MPAA. That's right folks, they are the "bad guys", known for shady if not downright illegal entrapment to extort more money from the public! Note they have now been caught red handed, even admitting they have staged a DOS attack against a company who's servers they had illegally violated in order to do their shady (illegal?) entrapment scams. If I ever heard of a company that needed to be forced out of business, MediaDefender is it. Their association with the MPAA/RIAA reinforces my belief that these thugs deserve not one thin dime of my (or anyone else's) money. If the RIAA/MPAA and MediaDefender is allowed to break the law in order to hack people's servers in an attempt to entrap people, why is it more wrong for me to torrent *ALL* my music and movie selections from now on?

[smokified]

Right on dude.

[michael_o]

I'm not normally against the RIAA as our many others because I believe people are entitled to dictate the compensation for their work. But it looks like a firm that works mainly (exclusively?) for the RIAA stole somebody else's bandwidth. Did they do this accidentally? If the requests were coming from one IP block then why did it take so long for Revision3 to figure out who was throwing a DOS at them and block it? (or was MediaDefender using a zombie-bot farm?) This doesn't seem as interesting as the HP story yet, but it also seems like a lot of pieces are missing that could get it there...

[The_Decider]

What work did the RIAA perform to merit getting money that should go to the musicians and singers?

[Magallanes]

So this wasn't a personal attack, just a routine attack ( <---- illegal, no matter if the target is "guilty" or not).

[gerrrg]

I think I'm going to love following this story...I can't wait for various attorney generals to get involved! This is so juicy, it begs the question...if MediaDefender doesn't know who it is targeting, could MediaDefender one day 'accidentally' target the Feds, States, or Nations? Maybe Carly is involved? heh heh.