Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People

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Media Defender, a notorious anti piracy gang working for the MPAA, RIAA and several independent media production companies, just launched their very own video upload service called “miivi.com”. The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so.

Media Defender is known for their shady tactics. Besides launching video upload services, they also trap people into downloading fake torrents so they can collect IP addresses, and send copyright infringement letters to ISPs.

Fortunately, most of the IPs of these fake BitTorrent trackers are already blocked by blocklist software like PeerGuardian. However, they still manage to collect the IP addresses of thousands of users who do fall for this trap.

And Now they try to do the same with their “fake” video download service. They have registered a new domain and launched a video upload / download site with a web 2.0-ish name: miivi.com. Miivi claims to offer hight speed downloads of blockbuster movies like “300” (don’t download), hereby luring people into downloading copyrighted content.

Apparently the cease and desist letters they send to P2P users and video sharing sites like YouTube and other are not enough. At the bottom of this article is a screenshot of the WHOIS info, it speaks for itself. No matter how wrong ‘piracy’ might seem to some people, this is NOT the way to fight it.

My suggestion is: upload and download as much legal content as you can, titled “THIS SITE IS A SCAM“, let’s see if their servers can handle the stress.

Update: they changed their WHOIS info.

:source: Source: TorrentFreak
:pic: Screenshot: http://torrentfreak.com//images/miivi.jpg

July 10, 2007
:view: DailyTech: MediaDefender CEO: MiiVi Stories Libelously Fabricated

Bastards.

i cant acess the page, if someone can send legal content like a free linux distribution please post it here, lets fuck those bastards

Cannot access the site either.

it seems they are down, and they really changed the whois data.. i wonder if someday we will not catch them on time to know they are a fake.. :\

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Shady tactics...:ghey:

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Originally Posted by Colt Seevers

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Shady tactics...:ghey:

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lol agreed

I hope lots and lots of people in some country where copyright means fuckall and organisations like the mpaa can't get anyone convicted gets hold of the url to the next effort in this direction, if there is one.

Would be brilliant if they ended up supplying entire countries with free movies or something.

/mediadefender denies...sorta.

Check top post for link.