This Just In: Internal Anti-Piracy E-Mail Ranks BitTorrent Sites by Level of Monitoring
Written by Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com on July 18, 2007 – 8:10 pm -Remember the post on MediaDefender here? Well there is more information and someone is trying to keep it under wraps!
This site was yanked by its author shortly after being published. It blew up on DIGG and now it says:
Edited by the editor. edited per request of a man above my paygrade………… :(
But we got the original story below resurrected by the Google cache! Thank you for the information Pedro!! Keep on reading.
MediaDefender memo lists sites from “strong to low presence.”
Many of you I’m sure are now familiar with MediaDefender, a self-described “leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention (IPP) industry,” and how they are frequently employed by movie studios and record labels to make illegal file-sharing as difficult as possible.
The infamous 99.9% BitTorrent tracker download on TorrentSpy is perhaps the most famous of all fake files that I’m sure they can take partial credit for.
A number of fake Korn albums is apparently some of their most recent work in support of one of their clients, EMI Records.
But, it’s often wondered to what degree MediaDefender monitors a BitTorrent tracker site and works to protect the copyrighted material of a particular client.
Well, I have been fortunate enough to get a hold of an interesting internal MediaDefender e-mail that details the degree of BitTorrent tracker site protection they offer for one of their clients, which in this case is Fox Studios
It reads:
From: Pedro C.
To: Octavio H.
Subject: RE: Fox torrent sites.
O,
Here is the Fox list site we protect on….from strong to low presence,
in that order.
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-Bitenova.org
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-Torrentportal.com
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-Torrentreactor.to
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-Isohunt.com
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-Torrentbox.com
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-MyBittorrent.com
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-Torrentspy.com
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-Mininova.org
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-ThePiratebay.org
The following are sites where we additionally post torrents.
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-Meganova.org
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-Worldnova.org
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-Fenopy.com
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-BTmon.com
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-BTjunkie.org
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-Snarf-it.org
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-Bushtorrent.com
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-Fulldls.com
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-Extratorrent.com
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-torrentlocomotive.com
~Pedro
I think what’s most interesting to find in this list is the fact that the Pirate Bay and Mininova are at the bottom with a “low presence” of anti-piracy activities. There could be a number of reasons for this but, I think it’s because the pair are just too darn sophisticated to fall for the fairly easy to detect and predict IP addresses that MediaDefender uses to upload fake content.
Either way, at least the list can provide you with a better idea of what sites to avoid if you don’t want to have a run in with fake content, or worse yet, have your IP captured for legal action by the a client’s copyright attorneys.
Wow Pedro that sure is a mouth full! Good looking out from all your friends @ AskTheAdmin! Way to put us on!
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