So let’s see, MediaDefender admitted to using revision3’s bit torrent tracker illegitimately (by exploiting it to deliver something that it was not meant to do) and then they admitted to SYN flooding it over 3 days, yet all they can come up with is “sorry”. 8000 connection attempts per second is hard to attribute to an errant application.

Please, revision3, sue the crap out of these guys. Considering MediaDefender’s track-record and previous behaviour, the only way the world can be rid of them is for a judge to order their ISP to pull the plug completely.

Considering that recent¹ news keep hinting at how the MAFIAA and company want to push responsibility for file sharing onto ISPs, let’s muse over a few possible outcomes.

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1. Well, they were far more recent when I drafted this entry [↩]

Since news hit the wire today that some versions of µTorrent and the official BitTorrent clients are vulnerable to DoS attacks, I’m sure the RIAA and their lackeys have launched a massive campaign to try and turn off users’ clients, even if only for a little while. Since many people run seedboxes, this could pose a problem.

This could pose a problem in the long run, too. Am I the only one to believe the RIAA will eventually start trying to corrupt trackers and/or clients? Since they seem to be losing legal battles, at some they might decide it’s more effective to find vulnerabilities and other problems and so disrupt the usage of p2p software altogether.

A few of the new and old, coming right up:

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