MediaDefender partII

A link roundup. Gettin better.
Record Labels Use Piracy Data to Please Fans
Most people assume that record labels hate filesharing, but it seems that some companies actually use it as a research tool. We found out that Interscope records, and probably other record companies as well, use P2P data to determine which tracks they will release [...]

Filed under: .torrent, Copyright, Distribution, P2P

Sh*t Hits The Fan For Media Defender

Awesome Story this week unfolding around Media Defender, an anti-piracy company working with the content cartels to do things like pollute P2P networks with bogus/corrupt files, hack P2P users computers and entrap people into illegal file-sharing. Emails and all sorts of internal goodies have been outed on the Internets. All sorts of interesting tidbits and [...]

Filed under: .torrent, Copyright, Network Politics, P2P