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Gotta love admiral Ackbar.

MediaDefender (anti-piracy) launched MiiVi.com, a fake video downloading site.

ZeroPaid.com, acting on a tip from The Pirate Bay, called MiiVi out late last Tuesday. The proof behind their accusations lies in archived WHOIS records, showing that MediaDefender registered MiiVi.net and MiiVi.com in February and March of this year.

According to "soulxtc" of ZeroPaid.com, in addition to baiting users to download illegal movies, the client also scans users' hard drives for downloaded content; a sharp contrast to MediaDefender's own stated policies and tactics, which in bold print claim the company only uses "non-invasive technological countermeasures."
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Here is some follow up.

Antipiracy agency MediaDefender strongly denies recent claims that it set up an entrapment scheme in order to catch so-called pirates downloading illegal movies and software.

MediaDefender's Randy Saaf told Ars Technica that while the company does own the domain to MiiVi, the story itself was completely made up. "MediaDefender was working on an internal project that involved video and didn't realize that people would be trying to go to it and so we didn't password-protect the site," Saaf said. "It was just an oversight from that perspective. This was not an entrapment site, and we were not working with the MPAA on it. In fact, the MPAA didn't even know about it."
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Uh huh. Yeah right.

A web site called MiiVi allegedly offered full-length motion pictures for download and offered to install special client software on the user's computer to help speed up the downloads. However, the software did a little more than that: it also reportedly performed searches of the user's computer for other illegal software and reported its findings back to MediaDefender.
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need x64 vista PG2 T_T, they say they're working on it....since before oct...
 
If you don't pirate then you've got nothing to worry about, right? :)
 
TheDan said:
If you don't pirate then you've got nothing to worry about, right? :)
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head over to politics, and hang out there for a while Dan.

What's a little wire-tapping, spying, and privacy intrusion going to hurt anyone? Go ahead and give up your rights, but don't give up mine. :cat:
 
I can see both sides using propaganda in this war on piracy. So I hereby proclaim:
Pics, or it didn't happen!
 
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