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Hey, remember when the leak spoofers at MediaDefender had their e-mail broken into a few months back? Well, the finance department at parent company ArtistDirect sure does: The company has to pay out $600,000 in credits to "clients affected by the leak," not to mention $225,000 in legal and administrative costs. And, of course, the humiliation suffered by the knowledge that employee outings involved seeing Chris Kattan perform. [Billboard]

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Torrent-spoofing company MediaDefender's bad run of luck gets worse: "MediaDefender-Defenders proudly presents the source code that MediaDefender use[s]. The source is complete for their operations regarding Kazaa, bittorrent, gnutella etc. This system is now released for the public in order to identify the decoys they set up. A special thanks to the MD employee that gave this to us." [Listening Post]

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leak of the week

A Look Inside The Major Labels' Creaky "Whack-A-Pirate" Machine

Over the weekend, some enterprising hackers weaseled their way into the e-mail system of MediaDefender, a Southern California-based company that works with major labels and movie studios to try and make stealing those companies' products a little bit harder. As Douglas Wolk described the company in Spin: "The bread and butter of MediaDefender's business is interfering with unauthorized file-sharing: disseminating fake files, clogging uploaders' queues, disrupting downloads. To advertise their services, they provide record labels and film and TV studios with information on exactly when and where releases have leaked." (And in their off-hours, they go and see Chris Kattan perform!) More »

9:30 AM on Thu Sep 20 2007
By mjohnston
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Latest by bedofnails: I find hilariousness in this email dated Sept. 4th: "Keep in mind the attachment is from our legacy gnutella file distribution system (Ivan's original decoying system). The thing I find interesting is Kanye West's tracks were downloaded from us more more »