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Media Defender still seeding torrents

A server hijack or somebody is up to old tricks...

A SHARP-EYED reader from Slovakia contacted us to tell us that he spotted Media Defenders’ torrent tracker.

After a rather big fallout with hackers breaking into mail servers and taking 700MB of e-mails, it seems that either hackers hijacked the server name and they’re now using MiiVi.org server name for illegal file distribution, or maybe it’s the name for good old spying technology for the users that are downloading the torrent file with MiiVi trackers in them.

Strawberry Miivi

Sadly for MiiVii.org, this con was caught faster than Michelle Madigan, and torrent engines and users themselves are massively reporting and deleting files that have miivi.org trackers in them.

Interesting game of cat’n’mouse people play these days. µ

See Also
Pirates mock Media Defender
Media Defender told porkies about P2P site

Media Defender backtracks on 'entrapment site'
MPAA sets up P2P sites

Comments

But...

...doesn't miivi.org belong to The Pirate Bay? I'm sure MediaDefender's original domain was miivi.com, or something.

From miivi.org:

"A tribute to the fall of MediaDefender
Open tracker without registration:
http://tracker.miivi.org/announce courtesy of the piratebay"

Also a quick whois says someone from meganova registered the domain.
posted by : Senn, 27 September 2007

Uh...

MiiVi.org is the spoof site setup by The Pirate Bay, not the original media defender site.

I suppose checking facts is a bit passe..
posted by : koan, 27 September 2007

Its about time

Its about time someone targets them the same way they target individuals. In the web no one can hear you scream!!! or cry.
posted by : missingxtension, 28 September 2007
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