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 [...]
Revision3 CEO on DOS and MediaDefender
The Media Defender Story continues
Media Defender, the company that is spreading fake releases to p2p networks such as edonkey or bittorrent in order to spread chaos amongst file sharers, has been hit by another devastating blow. First thousands of internal emails leaked on the Internet detailing information about fake releases, ways of spreading those releases and several other internal Media Defender internals.
Media Defender email leak
More than 6500 internal emails from anti-piracy company Mediadefender have been leaked on the Internet as one big Mailbox file that can be imported into email clients. Mails give in depth information about tactics that have been used to spread fake releases, fake edonkey servers and their opinion about several bittorrent clients.
