Recoding industry dirty tricks exposed

MediaDefender is a company paid by the entertainment industry and other content owners to poison P2P downloads of copyright material. Its practices have long been held in poor repute but its reputation got a further setback after a leakage of internal MediaDefender email revealed that the company had been involved in an entrapment plan called MiiVi. MediaDefender had previously denied any connection with MiiVi, but the truth has now been exposed. Read the full article [1] for the juicy details as well as this follow-up [2]. Thanks to Lex Davidson for the links.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070916-leaked-media-defender-e-mails-reveal-secret-government-project.html
[2] http://www.chillingeffects.org/weather.cgi?WeatherID=593

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