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MediaDefender Profits From Porn
This business makes money any way that it can
(old news - 09:51AM Sunday Sep 21 2008)
tags: Fileswapping · business · trouble · content
MediaDefender is an anti-piracy business that plays around at both ends of the filesharing spectrum. The company is involved with both legal and illegal p2p downloads online; they use legal downloads to make money on branded songs in partnership with businesses like Atlantic records and they use illegal downloads to catch filesharers and get money from studios that want their works protected. Perhaps neither of these business ventures is quite as profitable as the company needs it to be, though, because it has just been discovered that they also have an active porn site online. They have been caught spamming filesharing networks with files that direct the downloaders to their own porn site as well as to affiliate program porn sites. This casts some suspicion on MediaDefender’s role in working with New York’s AG to cut down on child porn downloads – not to say that they’re in the business of kiddie porn because all of their porn is apparently legal but it adds another level of dubiousness to the way that they play at both ends of the filesharing spectrum.

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Airwolf7 @ 21st Sep 11:10AM:
They sound like scum to me.

I said everything I needed in the subject line.
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Madtown @ 21st Sep 11:32AM:
Do I have it or not?

I don't think I have it on my laptop, not sure if I do or not. I checked my start menu and didn't see it there. I don't think I'll be getting it either base on this article.
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Smith6612 @ 21st Sep 11:35AM:
And who discovered this?

The P2P downloaders of course! See? Even illegal downloading can help catch the anti-piracy guys at their games. MediaDefender deserves the banhammer for this one.
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openbox9 @ 21st Sep 11:58AM:
Re: And who discovered this?

said by Smith6612 :

MediaDefender deserves the banhammer for this one.
For legally selling porn? I don't think so. MediaDefender has done a lot of questionable things and taken many missteps, but what's wrong with them selling/advertising legal porn?
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bowieman @ 21st Sep 12:03PM:
Re: And who discovered this?

test test testicles
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TKJunkMail @ 21st Sep 12:18PM:
Re: And who discovered this?

said by Smith6612 :

And who discovered this?
The P2P downloaders of course! See? Even illegal downloading can help catch the anti-piracy guys at their games.
Right. Lets defend copyright infringers for attacking the cops. Not!
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Kearnstd @ 21st Sep 12:31PM:
Re: And who discovered this?

too bad media defender isnt the cops, they are hired thugs that are below even the Rent-a-Cop.

they seem to use highly questionable methods to get their data. i bet if i put a seed up with the water skiing squirrel and named it after the latest metallica song id get a nastygram from the record goons lapdog media defender.
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sbrook @ 21st Sep 01:11PM:
It might be legal ...

but it's morally questionable.
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openbox9 @ 21st Sep 01:21PM:
Re: It might be legal ...

Why? Do you feel it morally questionable that all of the other purveyors of porn advertise their wares? Or just Media Defender given the seedy past?
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james @ 21st Sep 01:36PM:
Re: And who discovered this?

said by openbox9 :

said by Smith6612 :

MediaDefender deserves the banhammer for this one.
For legally selling porn? I don't think so. MediaDefender has done a lot of questionable things and taken many missteps, but what's wrong with them selling/advertising legal porn?
How are people supposed to know which files they offer are legal and which aren't? It's like going to some guy on the street who sells legal DVDs of movies, but has some that are fake but look just as legal as the others, and if you buy the fake ones from him, he arrests you.
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openbox9 @ 21st Sep 01:59PM:
Re: And who discovered this?

For starters, if you're redirected to a site where you need to pay for content, that's probably one of the authorized ones. If you're getting full porn HD rips, they probably aren't authorized. Either way, I doubt that Media Defender is giving away content, authorized or unauthorized, so it shouldn't be too challenging to determine legitimacy.
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james @ 21st Sep 02:20PM:
Re: And who discovered this?

said by openbox9 :

Either way, I doubt that Media Defender is giving away content, authorized or unauthorized, so it shouldn't be too challenging to determine legitimacy.
I'm not even going to bother arguing with someone who can't be bothered to read the news blurb we're arguing about.

Hint: "The company is involved with both legal and illegal p2p downloads online; they use legal downloads to make money on branded songs in partnership with businesses like Atlantic records and they use illegal downloads to catch filesharers and get money from studios"
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sbrook @ 21st Sep 03:00PM:
Re: It might be legal ...

I said it's questionable, not wrong. The circumstances for any purveyor matter in making that decision. A company's past like MD certainly adds to those questions!
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anon @ 21st Sep 03:50PM:
for encouraging and being part of the distribution

Men who purchase the pleasures of this life are all foolish.
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openbox9 @ 21st Sep 03:49PM:
Re: And who discovered this?

That's Kathryn's take. I read the linked articles where there is actually more detail. I merely answered a question as best I could with the information I had....not arguing.
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openbox9 @ 21st Sep 09:01PM:
Re: for encouraging and being part of the distribution

I agree. Why pay for the cow when I'm already getting the milk ;)
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andyb @ 21st Sep 11:14PM:
Re: It might be legal ...

They also sell music but put that same music up on BT in a bogus file,creating an identical hashmark as another file(not knowing what's in the file just going by name) and screwing up peoples downloads.Legal and non legal downloads I may add.And when they hack into a company's server and use it as a bot I really find that they have no ethics or care for the law or anyone,just the money.
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qworster @ 22nd Sep 12:35AM:
Mediadefender = whores

They do it any way they can get a buck out of it. They have no ethics or morals. In simple terms, they are whores!
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openbox9 @ 22nd Sep 07:22AM:
Re: It might be legal ...

And the morality of selling porn?
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Grail Knight @ 22nd Sep 09:40AM:
Re: It might be legal ...

quote:
It might be legal ...

but it's morally questionable.


Is it any worse then churches running Bingo Halls, gambling, or selling raffle tickets to win cars?

Pray upstairs and gamble in the basement.
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sbrook @ 22nd Sep 02:21PM:
Re: It might be legal ...

Does it make either right?
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anon @ 22nd Sep 06:00PM:
Re: And who discovered this?

Exactly. Why even deal with this company when you know they are shady to begin with? I don't care if their content is legal or pirated. Based on this companies past history why would you do any business with them?
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Grail Knight @ 22nd Sep 07:22PM:
Re: It might be legal ...

It depends on the law of the land.

Morality is just how one feels about things.

Is it illegal or not goes back to laws.
It is obvious that morals over the years have gone downhill and companies know this so they push as much as they can.
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sbrook @ 23rd Sep 11:54AM:
Re: It might be legal ...

I dispute the idea that morals over the years have gone downhill ... In days of yore, morals were just as horrible but a) they didn't have the media telling them about every case of immoral conduct one could conceivably imagine, and b) they dealt with these things far more "in the family" or "swept under the carpet".
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Grail Knight @ 23rd Sep 12:10PM:
Re: It might be legal ...

You can dispute it all you want that is your right.
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