The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak

[Ynot]

http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefende...leaked-070915/ The company MediaDefender works with the RIAA and MPAA against piracy, setting up fake torrents and trackers and disrupting p2p traffic. Previously, the TorrentFreak site accused them of setting up a fake internet video download site designed to catch and bust users. MediaDefender denied the entrapment charges. Now 700MB of MediaDefender's internal emails from the last 6 months have been leaked onto BitTorrent trackers. The emails detail their entire plan, including how they intended to distance themselves from the fake company they set up and future strategies. Other pieces of company information were included in the emails such as logins and passwords, wage negotiations, and numerous other aspect of their internal business.

[GestaltAlteration]

Oh my goodness. That's an awesome leak.

[Ynot]

these 2 were classic >From: Watson, Jeff (WBR) >To: Octavio Herrera; leaks >Cc: Bird, Jennifer >Sent: Sun May 13 10:49:59 2007 >Subject: Re: # LP illegal album downloads >MediaDefender folks - please let us know roughly how many Linkin Park albums have been downloaded since the leak. Album is called Minutes To Midnight. Thanks. >From: "Octavio Herrera" > >To: "torrents" >Cc: "Gilberto Vargas" >, "Ben Grodsky" >, "Rick Moreno" > >Subject: Fw: # LP illegal album downloads >Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 15:24:59 -0700 >Torrent team, can you give us a sense of how many dowloads of tis album there has been off bt. We are not protecting on bt so the bigger the better.

[Goldney]

Hahaha. I feel all warm inside now. They are so screwed. This is really fucked. Let’s pull miivi offline.

[GestaltAlteration]

Download the e-mails here http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3806944/...612.200709-MDD

[Pyrofan1]

oh, the irony

[Adam]

ha-ha quality find!!!

[Scatterbrain]

Once again copyright freaks got completely owned.

[Ynot]

Ars Technica has an article up following the leak http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...t-project.html

[Ynot]

P2P sites publicly ridicule MediaDefender for DMCA cease and desist notices http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...mail-leak.html

[Man of Steel]

Oh, man, the irony... That's just too great.

[Lomebririon]

This is full of win. Hooray for shafting bastard companies!

[Wavefunction]

They got owned.

[Ynot]

Pirate Bay sues big media corps in wake of leaked emails http://thepiratebay.org/blog

[GestaltAlteration]

Hey does anyone know how to get .mbox files to work? I can't read the e-mails because I can't open the bloody files. Tried eudora/outlook but had trouble with it. never managed to get past the subject into the content of the e-mails.

[Ynot]

thunderbird http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/thunderbird/ *edit* although if you prefer, this http://home.arcor.de/luethje/prog/mbx2e068_en.zip will convert an mbox file into seperate .eml files (outlook's native format)