MediaDefender's Denial Of Service Attack On Revision3
Found on Techdirt on Wednesday, 28 May 2008
The company has also been accused of a variety of different denial of service attacks against sites it believes are promoting file sharing. On the whole, pretty much everything the company seems to be associated with would be considered dirty tactics. What's amazing is that in pulling all these dirty tricks, MediaDefender never seems to get in much trouble for it.
MediaDefender, however, used a backdoor into Revision3's BitTorrent tracker to inject its own nefarious torrents -- basically piggybacking off of Revision3's tracker. Revision3 noticed the backdoor and closed it -- at which point, MediaDefender's system started flooding Revision3's servers with over 8,000 pings per second.
It's always been baffling: MediaDefender, a company that claims to protect "illegal" filesharing, makes extensive use of backdoors to poison networks; and if someone closes said backdoor, MediaDefender's network, of course accidentally, brings down the site. What a nice example of "fight illegal activity with illegal activity".