MediaDefender Attacks Revision3

You may have already know Revision3 experienced problems over the Memorial Day weekend due to a denial of service attack. But this turned out to be not your run of the mill DOS attack. Usually the IP addresses of the computers sending the DOS request packets sent are spoofed, masked to where it is difficult or impossible to tell where they originated. Not this time.
As Jim Louderback explains in his excellent, highly detailed blog post, it turns out the vast majority of request packets came from none other than MediaDefender. The same MediaDefender involved in setting up a fake movie download site that was nothing more than an entrapment scheme. The same MediaDefender that exists for the sole purpose of attempting to disrupt illegal file sharing on P2P networks, particularly BitTorrent, on the behalf of numerous big name studios. There's just one problem with this (ok, there are actually several, but for now we'll focus on this one): P2P networks can be and are used for legitimate, legal activities such as people distributing their own content. Open source software is also distributed over P2P.
Jim and Kevin (and their backers) over at Revision3 aren't going to take too kindly to another company disrupting their business. After all it's shenanigans, MediaDefender may finally be in some trouble as the FBI are reportedly looking into the matter. Denial of service attacks are illegal according to the Economic Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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