Mediadefender-defenders

[The Dong]

If you haven't heard about this leak (I'd be disappointed) and are a 
nosey sort wondering just exactly the types of, let's not quibble, 
disruptive and bandwidth wasteful activities, go to your favourite 
Torrent site, search for Mediadefender and download the 600Mb mbox 
leaked file.
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Dan,

Is Macrovision's Paramount decoying similar to our Universal Studios 
posting?  I'm wondering if the issue is just that we aren't decoying as 
much as they are -- which I would expect for Paramount.  Or is 
Macrovision doing something better than we are that we should strive at 
least to duplicate?

We still use free domains for trackers, they've just been much more 
problematic for us than paid domains for trackers.

Thanks,
Ben
From: Daniel Lee
Sent: Fri 30-Mar-07 14:45
To: qa; torrents
Subject: Macrovision Decoy Torrents (Paramount)

We tested the three projects Macrovision is protecting for Paramount:  
Black Snake Moan, Charlotte?s Web, and Dreamgirls.  From our initial 
testing, it looks as though they are only using decoy torrents posted on 
their own trackers for protection?there was no sign of interdiction.  
Most of their decoys stopped downloading at 90%.  Although some of their 
torrents do get banned from sites like Mininova, and TorrentSpy, they 
still have quite a few decoy torrents up on these sites.



An easy way to identify a tracker used by them is to go to the main 
website of a suspected tracker (e.g., http://www.dnjdojo.net) and see 
whether it points to DynDNS.  All of the trackers that have been sending 
out fake files seem to be redirected through DynDNS. 




According to the effectiveness report, Macrovision was 100% effective on 
but we were able to download real files for both Dreamgirls and 
Charlotte?s Web.  Still, they are pretty effective overall.  If you 
search for ?Black Snake Moan? on IsoHunt and sort by seeds, they cover 
15 of the 20 torrents on the first page.





Decoy Examples:



http://www.mininova.org/tor/639429

http://www.mininova.org/tor/639243

http://www.mininova.org/det/639479

http://www.mininova.org/tor/639217

http://torrentspy.com/torrent/1089178/Black_Snake_Moan_CAM_VCD_READNFO_RUSTLERS

http://torrentspy.com/torrent/1084777/Black_Snake_Moan_CAM_PROPER_VCD_RUSTLERS

http://torrentspy.com/torrent/1084750/Black_Snake_Moan_2007_FRENCH_CAM_XviD_CiNEFOX





Suspected Macrovision Trackers:




dnsdojo.net


dyn-o-saur.com

game-server.cc


hobby-site.com


is-a-chef.org


kampioen.dyndns.biz


scrapping.cc


selfip.org


servebbs.com


serveftp.net


servegame.org


shacknet.nu


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Not that we didn't already know that the media majors employ 
considerable effort into filling the internet with sh1t, even if it is 
legitimate content. Hah.

:)