p2pnet - rss feed: MediaDefender boss Randy Saaf arrested
p2pnet news | Crime:- MediaDefender boss Randy Saaf (left) and sidekick Octavio Herrera are being questioned by Las Vegas Police.
The pair, shown here in handcuffs, were arrested following the online publication of confidential MediaDefender documents, including a transcript of a phone call with US police authorities.
Saaf’s MediaDefender has been posting fake download files on behalf of entertainment cartel hit organisations, principally Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), which then releases statements claiming the ’spoofs,’ as they’re called, are the work of ‘pirates’.
In one of the most recent examples, “Pirates frequently make ’spoofs’ of titles available on peer-to-peer networks, so what you think you are downloading might in fact be a fake,” says the MPAA’s MPA (Motion Picture Association).
Saaf and Herrera will be arraigned next week on 10,00,324 charges of illegal uploading with intent to deceive, bandwidth theft, and grievous misrepresentation.
Meanwhile, MediaDefender-Defenders, the site carrying the leaked MediaDefender documents, remains defiantly online.
Click here for:
- View by threads
- View by date
- (NEW) MediaDefender.Source.TrapperKeeper-MDD Torrent
- Transcript for MediaDefender.Phonecall-MDD (Enhanced OGG (V1), 11.4 MB)
- Upload stats for Gnutella/etc decoy files
- List of all IPs that MD has used (14.3 MB)
- List of all IPs that DDoS us that are MediaDefender Owned
And definitely stay tuned.
Also See:
online publication - MediaDefender fiasco: update III, September 19, 2007
recent examples - Hollywood invades Taiwan schoolss, September 20, 2007
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September 22nd, 2007 at 8:18 am
Holy cow! this is amazing. I just love it when the bad guys lose. And make no mistake about it, these are the bad guys, flooding networks with fakes, helping the RIAA sue people. These are actually worse than the RIAA in some respects.
I hope they are made bankrupt and sent to jail for a long long time!
This is also a warning to other would be RIAA net henchmen. If you flood networks with decoys, you are breaking the law!
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:22 am
Could the RIAA and it’s clients also be culpable by association? They were after all paying them for these services!
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:24 am
Is this a spoof? That picture does not look like normal booking pictures.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:25 am
er, read this a bit more carefully. its another P2PNet spoof itself
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:27 am
The hackers who got this information are godlike, and should be worshiped
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:28 am
“er, read this a bit more carefully. its another P2PNet spoof itself”
Damn, i was getting all excited,
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:10 am
It’s time for MediaDefendant to be brought to the court anyway…
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 am
fuck you losers its about time
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:16 am
this is a fucking fake…
get ur heads out of ur asses for once, ok?
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:34 am
Um… why is p2pnet posting fake articles?
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:58 am
“Satire usually has a definite target, which may be a person or group of people, an idea or attitude, an institution or a social practice. It is found in many artistic forms of expression, including literature, plays, commentary, and media such as song lyrics. Often the target is examined by being held up for ridicule, typically in the hope of shaming it into reform.” - The Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire
But I admit: there’s little chance of reform in this instance
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Given the landscape of this situation, it seems to me that this is quite lame. So much for this sites credibility. You had me, and lost me in under a minute. Nice work.
jackson
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:06 pm
I disagree. This achieves what it sets out to achieve.
It is extremely unlikely that the mainstream news companies will give this incident the attention it deserves.
Posts such as this are performing a service.
- Morg
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I have to admit, faking this article was silly. Considering that the company MediaDefender might actually be facing legal action as a result. Satire usually applies when something has little credence, this too closely resembles reality to be satire.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Okay, it’s fake news. Satire. It would be both funny and tragic if some credible news site reported it as fact.
Quick fact check: http://redrock.co.clark.nv.us/ccdcincustody/inCustodySearch.aspx
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Hopefully this has put a shill in this bag of shit of Randy Saaf who is not worth the space he is occupying nor the chemical crap that make is body.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Another blog that I read — news.p2p.net — adds more to the story!!!!
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September 22nd, 2007 at 10:26 pm
——————- from news.p2p.net ———————–
The FBI has also requested a hold on the pair, as they investigate the negligent storage and subsequent loss of employees’ personnel information, distribution of animal-human sex images on their MiVii site, and crimes from their repeated accesses and modification of 3rd-party computer sites without authorization.
The Onion, in one of its trademark investigative-reporting articles, uncovered that NBC’s “Dateline” newsmagazine was planning a two-part expose on Randy Saaf and his company, Mediadefender. NBC cancelled the plans, even before filming was complete. NBC refuses to confirm or deny the story. Chris Hansen, speaking to an undercover Onion reporter, said, “what they were doing was so sick and so depraved, I don’t understand why NBC-Universal pulled the plug on it.”
Meanwhile, filings are expected in Los Angeles County civil courts, as Saaf’s employees and customers line up recoup their losses from the company’s misrepresentations and failed efforts.
——————- from news.p2p.net ———————–
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:27 am
i dont think they have been arrested at all, 1) the pic looks fake, 2) show me a real news site that its on, cos this is big news and yet its not on a single news site
so im gonna go with thie being aload of crap
September 23rd, 2007 at 4:30 am
off MDs site:
“[Spoofing is] an appropriate response to the problem of peer-to-peer piracy,” and “a self-help measure that is completely lawful … I think it would be crazy if record labels, or motion picture studios or any other owners of content didn’t take advantage of those kinds of measures.”
–Cary Sherman, President, RIAA, June 2002
“Decoying and Spoofing are the most commonly known techniques that we employ. ”
so surely if spoofing or decoying is illegal, police would have had them ages ago, and there site is still up, if fbi were investigating them it would have been taken down ages ago
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:42 am
http://thepiratebay.org/blog/86 pirates rule
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:47 am
me - they havent been arrested. this is a p2pnet spoof - satire - post. read some of the posts before yours.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
They don’t just spoof. They deploy malwares and break into computers. Also they frame people to propel their business.
All of this is illegal. The governement is not doing it’s job and I am afraid soemone has to do it for them.
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Its my firm beleif the US government must take action against these cyber-terrorists, thier scattergun methods of interdiction are wholly inadequate and unfit for purpose, perhaps if financial restitution was made for all the stolen bandwidth and criminal sanctions imposed for the launching of ddos attacks mediadefender has generated then folks may rest easy that the govenrmen was doing its job in protecting the populace, currently it is not.
September 24th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
I haven’t bothered going to the news.p2p.net site (which is not at all run by p2pnet.net), but it should be mentioned for those that didn’t already know, it’s an MD site:
http://samspade.org/whois/news.p2p.net
I typically enjoy Jon’s diverse interests and off-topic posts (and of course, his on-topic p2p articles), but this extremely lame attempt at satire fails completely in my book (I’m sure there are better ways to generate traffic here without offending your true supporters).
I thought this site was good at reporting real events that the lamestream sites don’t, but this one made me lose all respect. This article was not nearly absurd enough to be flagged as satire and though it’s not in the same boat as spoofing files on p2p networks, it’s indeed a spoof that isn’t warranted (or appreciated by me and likely others) here.
September 25th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
This wasn’t to generate traffic, although certainly, it all helps. The idea was to use farce to focus attention on a farce.
Cheers!
March 1st, 2008 at 9:42 pm
These guys are lowlife scum preying on their fellow humans and on a par with RIAA, terrorists, corrupt police, corrupt polys, lawyers, priests, parking inspectors, speed camera operators, real estate agents, used car salesmen, removalists, and collection agencies. Sorry if I’ve missed anyone out. Druggies?
March 1st, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Hey guys, keep your chins up. All the better to impart a good upper cut.