p2pnet news | P2P:- “Stories centering on the MediaDefender email fiasco will be circulating online for the foreseeable future.

Complete collections of the leaked communications, including a fascinating transcript of a phone call between MediaDefender and US enforcement officials on a porn hunt, are easily found and although yesterday the Media Defender e-mail database blog was down for a while, it’s back again today, hosted over yonder in Norway.

“We got pulled offline by No-ip.com, who seemed to take offense and took jrwr.hopto.org offline,” says the blog, going on that the posters had nothing to do with collecting the emails, etc.

They, “nabbed them off of BitTorrent and converted them,” just like thousands of other people did the day before yesterday, yesterday, are no doubt doing today, and will do tomorrow, and the day after, and ……

Update: We moved to the domain which.. one of the IRC guys got, and recieved our first C&D letter. More soon.

Feel free to come meet us at #MediaDefender-Defenders @ EFNet, and some new site features will be coming shortly.

And in the Fanmail section!

Received: from DMA-EVS-01V1.cs.smrh.net ([10.3.70.16]) by mail2.sheppardmullin.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);

X-Mailer: Unknown. Probably a Microsoft product.

Sender: “Bob Gerber” <rgerber@sheppardmullin.com>
Subject: Attached Cease and Desist Letter
Please review and respond immediately.
<<Cease & Desist J.E.Angell.PDF>>

This message is sent by a law firm and may contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you received this transmission in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message and any attachments.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Please visit our website at www.sheppardmullin.com

Attachments: Originally a PDF, but we don’t like those. Pages: Page 1, Page 2, My reply, Domain change 4tw.

With this in mind, “Hello, Mr. Bob Gerber,” says Media Defender e-mail database representative Person Who Fakes His WHOIS Information, going on:

First off, this e-mail may not be a complete statement of fact, fiction, and I fully reserve a right to change my mind if I feel like it.

Etc. Oh! Also, this e-mail addresses MD, not your law firm. I didn’t feel like digging through the database for an e-mail address, so here I am.

So! I’d like to make you aware of the following facts:

• You don’t have any jurisdiction in Norway.
• The server is located in Norway.
• I’m located in Norway.
• Norway is not the United States of America.

That appears to preclude you from pursuing anything but a pointless scenario of e-mailing me in the middle of the night.

However, fear not! The super-duper Server Admin From North may just yet save you. See, if you provide a server in the US, I can upload everything there and redirect the domains – then you can C&D that provider, and let the owner of the server put in another redirect. Soon, after about a couple hundred C&D’s, we’ll reacha state where any client (internet browser) will decide that it’s in a loop, and shut down.

You could also pay me a lot of money. That might help. That’d actually help immediately.

But as it stands, it appears that your legal grounds for throwing letters at me claiming this-or-that is shaky enough that you might want to relocate.

I look forward to your prompt reply. If no such reply is recieved within six hours, I consider this case null and void as I’m an impatient man.

Well, it’s already null and void, it’ll just get nuller and voider.

Best regards,PWFHWI

Earlier, “I am the CEO of MediaDefender,” said Randy Saaf (upper right), CEO of MediaDefender.

We have begun our civil and criminal investigations into the stolen emails from our company. We are meeting with the FBI on monday. Your IP address has been logged. I hope it was worth the thrill.

Says Spike in a p2pnet Reader’s Write:

Maybe they [the FBI] should instead investigate why Jackass Jay was forwarding all his email to GMail in the first place.

Meanwhile, “MediaDefender, which offers what it calls ‘decoying’ and ’spoofing’ services to clients, has drawn the ire of P2P users for its work stuffing file-sharing networks with worthless files,” says PC World, adding:

“We send blank files and data noise that look exactly like a real response to an initiated search requests for a particular title,” the company claimed on its Web site. “Pirated files will no doubt be on the networks, but with our protection applied, it would be easier to find a needle in a haystack than a real file amongst our countermeasures.”

Other details leaked in the messages include specifics of MediaDefender’s contract with Universal Music Group, a message from a company employee concerned that his name would be used on the site registration for WiiVii, and changes to WiiVii after some information about the planned site leaked in July.

Oh! The Shame!

Definitely stay tuned as MediaDefender desperately tries to defend its media.

.Slashdot it!

Also See:
down for a while – MediaDefender debacle: update, September 17, 2007
PC World – Hackers Leak Antipiracy Vendor’s E-Mail, September 18, 2007

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