Eventual Death of MediaDefender

With the recent news of MediaDefender (a pro-active anti-piracy company that’s paid by the RIAA and Software companies to track down pirates, trash P2P networks with fake files and make life hard for people who pirate movies, software and music), attacking Revision3 by DDOS’ng their bittorrent servers that are used for their own use for their own Revision produced media.

Apparently MediaDefenders anti-piracy tatic is to infiltrate bittorrent servers with fake files – any bittorrent website – when their fake files are removed, MediaDefender take this as an attack to remove fake files inorder to keep the non-fake pirated movies, software and music available. So MediaDefender attack Revision3 which is in tow ethically wrong to do and illegal in some cases.

Revision3 seem to have taken the decision to not take legal action against MediaDefender, in which if they did they’ll win because the attack caused the Revision3 server network to collapse and fall over which costed Revision3 to lose about $100,000 in advertising revenue.

I think if MediaDefender continue their pro-attack stance on piracy, any kind of piracy even and complete lack of understanding of how the internet works now, even though they use it effectively enough to attack the copyright holders of the copyright their indirectly paid by to protect the copyright, how effective will MediaDefender be in a few years.

MediaDefender will continue to be on the attack unless they have been stopped, I expect that they will lose ALL support and alienate it self from legitimate Media organisations who embrace newer technologies like P2P & BitTorrent services to distribute themselves and they have to deal with companies like MediaDefender who are constantly paranoid to the point that they cant think about legitimate media ever being distributed via P2P networks because traditionally P2P networks were never used for such a type of use.

MediaDefender will die, not because of the business becoming obsolete by newer anti-piracy technologies but because the Media Industry themselves will pull ALL support for them and the cash flow will die!