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Aggressive anti-piracy firm snags dolphin in tuna net

3 Jun 2008

Revision3 isn't planning to sue MediaDefender for taking down its Web site with a denial-of-service attack over the long Memorial Day weekend, even though the network lost a bundle due to the outage. Instead, it plans to send the anti-piracy firm a bill for its trouble -- and a reminder that there's no law against using peer-to-peer file-sharing technology.

Revision3, an entertainment network for the Web, had planned to release its two most popular shows last Friday evening in time for the Memorial Day weekend. Instead, chaos struck, and the Web 2.0 company found itself unable distribute videos or advertising or respond to clients' requests.

Even its internal e-mail servers were brought down.

The source of the IT meltdown, Revision3 eventually discovered, was a denial of service attack launched by MediaDefender, a company commissioned by the entertainment industry to stop illegal trading of copyrighted content on the Internet.

MediaDefender did not return a call from TechNewsWorld.

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