Posted on 05/29/2008 11:09:55 AM PDT by bamahead
http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3
Tech ping.
Well, at least my XP doesn’t have RIAADefender...er, I mean MediaDefender.
As my Dad told me long ago: The best attack isn’t one that causes physical pain but one that hurts them in the wallet. They need to sue MediaDefender for lost productivity. Until P2P networks are deemed illegal, then MediaDefender has no right to purposely and maliciously sabotage legitimate users of technology.
Who the heck is “Grodsky?”
The article mentions the name like we’re supposed to know (or infer) who this is.
Can anyone explain why on earth what these people are doing is legal?
Which people do you mean?
The MediaDefender criminals. This just seems just so blatantly actionable...
I agree. I respect the industries right to protect themselves from copyright infringement but this crosses the line and attacks legitimate providers of legal technology.
I don't know about the fake files part, but to this uneducated soul, DoS attacks are purely criminal, whatever the intentions.
Agreed. DoS attacks are criminal - period.
Bump and ping
The techie in me would love to know which port the “Backdoor access to the server” was on.
Ben Grodsky is a VP of ops at the MediaDefender organization.
If you check the link I posted in comment # 1, he’s identified in there. The blog I used as a source only contained an excerpt of that text.
Reading what’s at that link just makes this story more appaling as you move along:
So I picked up the phone and tried to get in touch with ArtistDirect interim CEO Dimitri Villard. I eventually had a fascinating phone call with both Dimitri Villard and Ben Grodsky, Vice President of Operations at Media Defender.
First, they willingly admitted to abusing Revision3’s network, over a period of months, by injecting a broad array of torrents into our tracking server. They were able to do this because we configured the server to track hashes only – to improve performance and stability. That, in turn, opened up a back door which allowed their networking experts to exploit its capabilities for their own personal profit.
L A W S U I T.
So you work for Revision3, then?
A site I admin that has nothing to do with music gets constantly scoured by a server in DC that belongs to these Media Defender folks. It is like an attack, worse than google spider. I ban their ip every time they come up with a new one.
bamahead was just excerpting the second most interesting piece of the thread article.
http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3
From what it sounds like, that server in DC may not really belong to them. They apparently hijack boxes to satisfy their own whims and those of their unscrupulous clients. These people are scum.
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