The website and shows at Revision3 were not accessible through the Memorial Day Weekend due to a denial of service attack (DOS) against their servers. Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback wrote a well written detailed response in the company blog that explained the facts behind the attack on the servers.
The story goes like this. Media Defender, the company that is regularly hired by RIAA, MIAA and other entertainment companies was using a backdoor in the Revision3 torrent tracker for their own purposes. One has to understand that the torrent tracker is being used to spread the legit releases of the company to the public. Well the service was exploited and Jim unfortunately fails to mention what Media Defender has used the service for.
The problems began when Revision3 discovered the activity eventually and put a stop to its use. The Media Defender server however responded in a rather irregular fashion flooding the Revision3 servers with 8000 Syn requests per second which eventually brought the server and the rest of the infrastructure down for the weekend.
It’s hard to say if the Denial of Service attack on the server was an automatic reaction of the Media Defender servers and Jim Louderback chooses his words carefully. The FBI is investigating the incident, no word yet if Revision3 will sue Media Defender as well.
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To be fair revision 3 is blaming Mediadefender without much proof, they don’t even know why they did it. Although DOS attack with bittorrent is a good idea :O free botnet
This is not the first time Media Defender or other MAFIAA-related companies have been suspected of DDoSing legitimate bittorrent services. I think that this is the first time that they have been caught red-handed, though, and I’m glad to see that the FBI is taking this seriously.
By the way, the ghacks css file is unavailable. I’m viewing the site as if it’s 1996 all over again. Nice!
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?