Ever heard of Media Defender?

[thewayne]

Media Defender works with the RIAA and MPAA and poisons torrents, among other things. Quite possibly an illegal activity, but since they're working for humongoid trade organizations, it's probably OK. Well, they got hacked. Big surprise! And Media Defender's email archives, along with some recorded calls with the New York State Attorney General's office, have been posted online.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/09/leaked_media_de.html


New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo admits that he's using Media Defender to gather evidence of kiddie porn. Many AG's in other states are more than a little concerned about this, specifically re: potential future conflicts of interest. Usually it's the job of law enforcement to gather evidence.

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/09/mediadefender_police

Comments

[silveradept]

Always nice to get a peek at what goes on inside those kinds of places, and how much they're probably breaking the law and then some, but nobody wants to go after them.

And then there's the outsourcing of real police work to people who are now showing up as incompetents. I don't think any of the possible evidence generated would stand up in court unchallenged, even without this leak.

Woud it be uncouth to root for an implosion of Media Defenders because of this, and to see all of the dirty deeds done, follow them back, and set off a chain of similar implosions?