http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2009/04/28/swine-flu-pirates-torture-j-p-houston-sings-the-news/ I fucked up my blog - now it looks like this. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:41:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.millsworks.net/blog/2009/04/28/swine-flu-pirates-torture-j-p-houston-sings-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1373 » Leaked Media Defender E-Mails: Secret Government Project Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:16:55 +0000 http://www.millsworks.net/blog/?p=277#comment-1373 [...] P2P is a legitmate means of distributing large amounts of information using a connected community of users. The potential behind peer-to-peer is endless as innovators and entrepreneurs worldwide are embracing the use of P2P. One example is to provide free cell phone coverage. In the meantime we have to put up with large media and telco monopolies who like to think they own the world - and own us - and have a right to bully everything into the darkest, stinkiest corner of their fetid stye. Fucking swine. It’s not surprising that MediaDefender was targeted in this manner. The company was accused of using shady tactics earlier this year when BitTorrent community site TorrentFreak revealed that the anti-piracy company was surreptitiously operating a video upload service called MiiVi that offered high speed downloads of copyright-protected content. Critics accused MediaDefender of using the site to perpetrate an entrapment scheme, an allegation that the company has vigorously denied. MediaDefender founder Randy Saaf personally assured Ars that MiiVi was an internal project that was never intended for public use. Back in July when we covered the MiiVi scandal, we knew Saaf’s story didn’t quite add up, and now the general public has evidence that blows holes in Saaf’s claims. [...] [...] P2P is a legitmate means of distributing large amounts of information using a connected community of users. The potential behind peer-to-peer is endless as innovators and entrepreneurs worldwide are embracing the use of P2P. One example is to provide free cell phone coverage. In the meantime we have to put up with large media and telco monopolies who like to think they own the world – and own us – and have a right to bully everything into the darkest, stinkiest corner of their fetid stye. Fucking swine. It’s not surprising that MediaDefender was targeted in this manner. The company was accused of using shady tactics earlier this year when BitTorrent community site TorrentFreak revealed that the anti-piracy company was surreptitiously operating a video upload service called MiiVi that offered high speed downloads of copyright-protected content. Critics accused MediaDefender of using the site to perpetrate an entrapment scheme, an allegation that the company has vigorously denied. MediaDefender founder Randy Saaf personally assured Ars that MiiVi was an internal project that was never intended for public use. Back in July when we covered the MiiVi scandal, we knew Saaf’s story didn’t quite add up, and now the general public has evidence that blows holes in Saaf’s claims. [...]

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