MediaDefender Defends Revision3 SYN Attack
Found on Wired on Saturday, 31 May 2008
MediaDefender is paid by the recording and motion picture industries to seed fake files to illicit torrent tracking services. When Revision3 closed the tracker during the holiday weekend, the result was a denial of service attack by MediaDefender, which had been seeding the tracker with fake torrents.
"That's when MediaDefender went into overdrive and started pummeling us," Louderback said. "If a tracker was previously open and suddenly shut, their systems are automatically configured to put them out of business."
Saaf said MediaDefender had been seeding the tracker with fake torrents for some time. Fake files corrupt BitTorrent downloads.
So, to sum it up, Randy Saaf, Media Defender's CEO, admitted openly that his company abuses systems belonging to others which have found to be exploitable to upload fake files trying to destroy downloads of other people. And if someone decides not to let them hijack their systems for this dirty work, Media Defender simply launches a denial of service attack to bring those systems down. That's like someone using your car to smuggle drugs across the border and when you suddenly keep your car locked, they throttle you. Seriously, Saaf should not be allowed to use illegal means, namely unauthorized access and denial of service, for his business. If you do something like that, feds will kick in your door at 3:48am and lock you up. Obviously, working for the media industry can buy you protection from legal forces.