The face of the enemy

I have professed my love for the content of the Revision3 network many times over the last few months. This "network" has become the refuge of all the great personalities from the now defunct TechTV and the content they are producing is fantastic. You really should check out some of the shows.

This past weekend, Memorial Day, the Revision3 site was difficult to impossible to access. There were rumors flying around the Internets about the reason for this outage but no one had a definitive answer. At least not until this morning when the CEO of Revision3, Jim Louderback, posted this article on the site's blog.

Here's the big picture for those of you too lazy to read that fantastic article. The Revision3 site and network was deliberately attacked by MediaDefender, a company that works for the RIAA and other media copyright holders. MediaDefender uses various underhanded tactics in order to "protect" the audio and video content of their customers. They were using the Revision3 bittorrent tracker to lure unsuspecting users into downloading planted copyrighted works so that their IP addresses could be logged and then later investigated.

I hope this turns out to be MediaDefenders epitaph....what a bunch of douchebags.