Peer-to-peer poisoners: A tour of MediaDefender

Vikingod · Mar 19, 2007, 09:22 AM

Source: Ars Technica
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When your company poisons peer-to-peer networks for a living, public relations usually takes a back seat to discretion; quiet is the rule in the P2P content-protection industry. That's why Jonathan Lee, the company's VP of business development, isn't worried that the corporate web site is down when I reach him in his Santa Monica office. "It's kind of ugly anyway," he says.

For a company like MediaDefender, the largest such firm in existence, privacy comes naturally, but a 2005 acquisition by ARTISTDirect has encouraged the firm to take its services public as it starts to look beyond its original client base—music labels and movie studios—and dives headfirst into the brave new world of providing legitimate P2P content for advertisers.

Mar 19, 2007, 09:22 AM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,149 Rep Power: 85 System Specs	Peer-to-peer poisoners: A tour of MediaDefender Source: Ars Technica __________ When your company poisons peer-to-peer networks for a living, public relations usually takes a back seat to discretion; quiet is the rule in the P2P content-protection industry. That's why Jonathan Lee, the company's VP of business development, isn't worried that the corporate web site is down when I reach him in his Santa Monica office. "It's kind of ugly anyway," he says. For a company like MediaDefender, the largest such firm in existence, privacy comes naturally, but a 2005 acquisition by ARTISTDirect has encouraged the firm to take its services public as it starts to look beyond its original client base—music labels and movie studios—and dives headfirst into the brave new world of providing legitimate P2P content for advertisers. __________________ *How You Can Help DriverHeaven By Using Digg*