MPAA Caught Red-Handed in Sting: Durn Them Duke Boys!
- July 5th, 2007
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I know this spread like wildfire last night, but it’s pretty funny. The MPAA hired a company, MediaDefender, to stop piracy. How did they do it? Through a fake video download site called MiiVi, a red hot download site full of red hot videos. The catch? It makes you download spyware that reports back on stolen video found on your computer. What a treat!
How did the world find out about the ruse? The morons used their own name and address to register the domain.
I’ve said it once and I’ve said it again — these ham-handed efforts are so disgustingly transparent and foolish that it reflects poorly on an industry that has, thus far, acted like a bucket of morons. I love me some movies and I buy me some movies on iTunes, but this is like watching Gargamel trying to squash the Smurfs and it just makes me want to download some red hot movies.
MPAA’s Media Defender sets up ‘fake’ site to catch pirates [Blorge]
The Pirate Bay Wants MediaDefender to Walk the Plank to Bankruptcy [TorrentFreak]
FAKEFINDER
1 year ago
just for the record, your “red hot movies” link is not the real one.
http://thepiratebay.org/
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John Biggs (Who am I?)
1 year ago
fixed
John Winehouse
1 year ago
Personally, I did not see any facts to support this story last night. It was one accusation off a blog site that picked up by digg. I think people are buying into the sensationalizm of a conspiracy theory. Could it be that we are all a little too paranoid about what the MPAA is up to?
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Neuromancer (Who am I?)
1 year ago
If this is true about the MPAA, then this is way worse than the Sony rootkit/malware scandal. The MPAA is not a government law-enforcing organization; it’s a bunch of civilians. Since when do civilians have the right to hold stings on other civilians?