Entertainment industry thugs wreck TV production firm

MediaDefender is a right-wing thug operation that trashes peer-to-peer networks by illegally gumming them up with bogus files that waste bandwidth. MediaDefender even created its own video sharing site to entrap folks into uploading copyrighted content. The firm's clients include major TV production companies, record labels, the RIAA, and the MPAA.

Revision3 is an Internet TV network that produces shows on assorted topics. Now MediaDefender has launched an illegal denial-of-service attack against Revision3. This was because Revision3 had locked out the spybots that MediaDefender was illegally using to spy on users.

MediaDefender not only vandalized Revision3, which is a legitimate business. It did so stupidly. Revision3 was able to trace the attacks right to MediaDefender.

What's really scary is that this could have just as easily happened to, say, a hospital or a fire department, if the idiots at MediaDefender wanted to accuse these agencies of violating its clients' copyrights. There's no boundaries on what the entertainment industry's hired thugs at MediaDefender have been allowed to get away with, and sooner or later, it could cause someone to be hurt or killed (instead of just costing someone business like it did this time).

If some teenager with a 300 baud modem had been able to do what MediaDefender did to Revision3, they'd be looking at hard time. Hopefully, authorities won't look the other way this time just because MediaDefender has the backing of the MPAA and RIAA Gestapos.

(Source: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/29/mediadefender-attack.html;
http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3)