Mediadefender

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Revision3 CEO Pinpoints Source of Denial-of-Service Attack

revision3 ceo jim louderback said mediadefender, an artistdirect subsidiary formed to fight peer-to-squint at piracy, caused the web video studio’s server and place to shut down atop of the souvenir day weekend through a denial of service attack. in a blog register on revision3′s site, mr. louderback said revision3′s bittorrent server was flooded with syn packets of data, which caused the server, along with the spot and the company’s e-mail, to shut down wholly tuesday. revision3 uses bittorrent legally to distribute its own video content, including web video series “diggnation” and “tekzilla.” by tracing back the syn data, mr. louderback was led to artistdirect, which confirmed the source’s address belonged to its mediadefender company. mr. louderback said he had a phone dialogue with artistdirect interim ceo dimitri villard and mediadefender vp of operations ben grodsky. according to mr. louderback, “they willingly admitted to abusing revision3′s network” by adding their own decoy effusion files to revision3′s bittorrent server, which later made it feasible for mediadefender to submit the thousands of syn packets, as innumerable as 8,000 per flawed, that caused the shutdown. mediadefender said on its web site that it “uses a range of non-invasive technological countermeasures employed on p2p networks to disappoint users’ attempts to steal/trade copyrighted gratify.” the company achieves this by “[sending] blank files and text noise that look particularly like a real response to an initiated search plea throughout a particular title.” phone calls to mediadefender seeking comment were not immediately returned. mr. louderback said the recording industry confederation of america and the suggestion picture league of america have some time ago been among mediadefender’s customers. he added that revision3 suffered material losses rightful to the denial of service dissolve, which prevented it from distributing its videos and serving advertisements. according to his post, the federal bureau of investigation is investigating the incident, which mr. louderback said is illegal in the u.s. under the economic espionage act and the computer fraud & abuse action, among other laws. phone calls to mr. louderback and the riaa seeking additional comment were also not at the drop of a hat returned.