MediaDefender

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MediaDefender is a company which offers services designed to prevent and stop people who engage in peer-to-peer copyright infringement, using tactics such as flooding peer-to-peer networks with decoy files that tie up a user's computer^[1]. MediaDefender is based in Los Angeles California in the United States, and its president is Randy Saaf. MediaDefender has approximately 60 employees^[2].

Increasingly these organizations are being hired to stymie P2P traders though a variety of methods including: posting fake files online, recording individuals who contribute copyrighted material, etc. Key customers include Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Virgin Records, HBO, Paramount Pictures, and BMG ^[3].

On August 1, 2005, ARTISTdirect announced that it had acquired MediaDefender for $42.5 million in cash. MediaDefender is estimated to have between 2,000 and 6,000 servers ^[4] using 9GBps of bandwidth and hosted in California.

Contents 1 Fact sheet 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Fact sheet

• Website: MediaDefender Website
• IP Slots: 38.117.6.0/23

[edit] See also

• Copyright social conflict

[edit] References

1. ^ Advertising to the File-Sharing Crowd
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ "Record Labels Turn Piracy Into a Marketing Opportunity"
4. ^ A war of attrition

[edit] External links

• MediaDefender's Official Website
• LA Times article about Piracy, with a quote from Randy Saaf.
• "MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents" — TorrentFreak (IP addresses of fake torrents traced back to MediaDefender)