MediaDefender Secretly Sells Porn to P2P Users

MediaDefender Secretly Sells Porn to P2P Users Written by Ernesto on September 20, 2008 

MediaDefender is widely known for their anti-piracy operations, spoofing and decoying on file-sharing networks for the entertainment industry. The company is doing more than that though, as we recently found out that adult affiliate programs were a significant source of income for them too.

When we posted an article on the Miivi project, Mediadefender CEO Randy Saaf wrote to his colleagues: “This is really fucked.” His response became public after thousands of internal emails from the company leaked on BitTorrent last year.

The emails exposed some of the innermost secrets of the anti-piracy outfit, and now another one is about to be revealed. One of the things we’ve learned already is that polluting file-sharing networks is a profitable business. MediaDefender received $4,000 to protect a music album and $2,000 for a single track. Movies were even more expensive, as they got $3.6 million from a large studio to protect just 4 movies.