MiiVi it wasn't a good idea after all...
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
One august day, an anti-piracy firm called MediaDefender created a website called "MiiVi" that promised copyrighted, feature-length films. It offered a downloadable client that was supposed to accelerate the downloads from the MiiVi servers. However, this client was all that and a bag of skittles: It searched the user's hard drive for other illegal media and phoned home with a list of the goods in tow.
A real shame that such a tactic is called entrapment, and it's a felony in the good ol' US of A. The whole thing came crashing down 'round MediaDefender's ears when The Pirate Bay tipped off ZeroPaid, an online publication. Subsequent investigation into the MiiVi domain revealed that it was clearly registered to MediaDefender, courtesy of a domain WHOIS. As word spread, the man behind the curtain tucked tail and fled, changing the WHOIS record and leaving little more than a parked GoDaddy page.
Ironic, no?
A real shame that such a tactic is called entrapment, and it's a felony in the good ol' US of A. The whole thing came crashing down 'round MediaDefender's ears when The Pirate Bay tipped off ZeroPaid, an online publication. Subsequent investigation into the MiiVi domain revealed that it was clearly registered to MediaDefender, courtesy of a domain WHOIS. As word spread, the man behind the curtain tucked tail and fled, changing the WHOIS record and leaving little more than a parked GoDaddy page.
Ironic, no?
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