Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we now have proof of the things we've been suspecting for a long time; the big record and movie labels are paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy our trackers.

While browsing through the email we identified the companies that are also active in Sweden and we have tonight reported these incidents to the police. The charges are infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, hacking and spamming, all of these on a commercial level.

The companies that are being reported are the following:

• Twentieth Century Fox, Sweden AB
• Emi Music Sweden AB
• Universal Music Group Sweden AB
• Universal Pictures Nordic AB
• Paramount Home Entertainment (Sweden) AB
• Atari Nordic AB
• Activision Nordic Filial Till Activision (Uk) Ltd
• Ubisoft Sweden AB
• Sony Bmg Music Entertainment (Sweden) AB
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Nordic AB

Stay tuned for updates.

The whole mail database was converted to HTML by Forrest F. (JRWR), and is hosted by the nicest guy on the planet.

Do note that this is not the official MediaDefender-Defenders website, just a browseable copy of the e-mail leak that snowballed. We're also not the guys that acquired these e-mails, we just nabbed them off of BitTorrent and converted them.

We got pulled offline by No-ip.com, who seemed to take offense and took jrwr.hopto.org offline. You can now find us here at mediadefender-defenders.com. However, as the world really should learn - whenever you take one site down, twelve new ones will spring online.

Update: We moved to the domain which.. one of the IRC guys got, and recieved our first C&D letter. More soon.

Feel free to come meet us at #MediaDefender-Defenders @ EFNet, and some new site features will be coming shortly.

After the big leak of last week, today mediadefender is desperately trying to establish some level of damage control. This morning we received an email from their lawyers stating that the domain registrar should hand over our personal information. So here is an open letter to MediaDefender.

Dearest little asstunnels,

Let me start of by thanking you for your pittyfull attempt to have your emails removed from the entire internet (the thing that says www.). In no way we feel obligated to fulfill your request, as a matter of fact any organisation that tries to harm this site and the bittorrent user in general can expect nothing more from us but a big fuck you!

In case you havent noticed, this site is located in europe (I hope you can point it out on a map) were your stupid copyright claims have no base. But fair is fair you guys did suffer over the past week so here's bit of advice to you guys:

Unfortunately for Media Defender - a company dedicated to mitigating the effects of internet leaks - they can do nothing about being the subject of the biggest BitTorrent leak of all time. Over 700mb of their own internal emails, dating back over 6 months have been leaked to the internet in what will be a devastating blow to the company. Many are very recent, having September 2007 dates and the majority involve the most senior people in the company. Apparently this is not the first time that a MediaDefender email leaked onto the Internet.

According to the .nfo file posted with the Mbox file the emails were obtained by a group called “MediaDefender-Defenders”. It states: “By releasing these emails we hope to secure the privacy and personal integrity of all peer-to-peer users. The emails contains information about the various tactics and technical solutions for tracking p2p users, and disrupt p2p services,” and “A special thanks to Jay Maris, for circumventing there entire email-security by forwarding all your emails to your gmail account”

Note: The mbox formatted file is circulating publicly on BitTorrent, completely unedited. However, for publication here we have removed the username and password logins for Media Defender’s servers, and replaced them with asterisks and avoided publishing emails of a personal nature, e.g pay negotiations etc. We believe that the emails are the real deal and all the info posted here serves the public interest.