Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums  
 Latest news     Press releases     Search news     Submit news     Our RSS newsfeed     Advertise at AfterDawn.com
Friday 5.12.2008 / 06:27 AM
Search:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > news > mediadefender spoofs peer-to-peer networks
Show topics
News
News

MediaDefender spoofs peer-to-peer networks

31 July 2001 13:39 by Jari Ketola

MediaDefender, a division of Laguna Beach-based OnSystems Inc., hs developed a software that blocks the access to copyrighted songs and other media shared on peer-to-peer networks.

The software works by scanning various peer-to-peer networks for copyrighted songs and then hammering the people offering the files with numerous requests. Since the peer-to-peer clients are designed for a few simultaneous connections, more than 100 requests will choke up the stream and prevent anyone else from getting the file. MediaDefender doesn't actually transfer the files it requests, so it doesn't consume any extra bandwidth from the client it blocks.

Another method used by MediaDefender is known as 'spoofing'. It offers files that look like the material the user is looking for, but contain no real data.

So far MediaDefender has only a few clients, but they have a firm belief in their service. They see it as a solution to the problem law isn't capable of containing.

There's little doubt that should MediaDefender become the method of choice among the record and movie industry, there will be some sort of counter action by the "hacker community".


Permalink to this article

Get AfterDawn's news to your favourite feed reader! Share this story with your friends!
 

 
Related articles:

  • MediaDefender's illegal tactics take down legal video site (29 May 2008)
    •  

    « Previous news article
    RIAA wants to reverse Aimster decision     		Next news article »
    MP3.com posts positive pro forma earnings
    Discuss this article! 
     Post your comment
     

    Subscribe to our newsfeed

    Get the latest headlines delivered directly to your favourite RSS reader or content aggregation service by using the links below.

    AfterDawn.com: News - RSS feed
    Add to Google
    Add to My Yahoo!
    Add to MyMSN

    Latest news

    RSS Feed

    Latest news from AfterDawn.com.

    More news...

    Search for headlines

    Search through our news archive.

    Latest threads

    Recently updated
    discussion threads.
     

    More...

    Last week's most popular software downloads

    Most popular devices

    Last week's most popular products in our product comparison service.

    More products...

    Latest software updates

    RSS Feed

    More software updates...

    Top links

    Most popular links

    Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums | DVD X Copy Forums
    Music: MP3Lizard.com
    Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums
    Software: Software downloads
    Blogs: User profile pages
    RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
    International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | download.fi | fin.MP3Lizard.com
    Navigate: Search | Site map
    About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
    Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
     
      © 1999-2008 by AfterDawn Ltd.