Keep your enemies close

The MPAA-”hacker” is spilling his guts in Wired.
Not really hot news, but still interesting. It’s funny how the copyright lobby is “permitted” to break the law to fight the things they do not agree with.
MediaDefender was one example. This is another - and do you remember that they put private investigators to follow Gottfrid and Fredrik around? Everything is ok for them. They use their economical muscles to break/bend the laws as they seem fit and they get away with it for most part.

In the case of the insider at TorrentSpy, it’s a classic example of industrial espionage. They’ve signed a contract to get information from this guy about TorrentSpy, The Pirate Bay, eXeem (SuprNova) and Mininova. And the insider was in direct contact with John Malcolm, the Executive Vice President (and Director of World-Wide Anti-Piracy) of MPAA. It’s always the upper management that condone these things, it’s not the little people as they try to make it look like. The little people would have understood that there was no connection between TorrentSpy and TPB. In their world we would be considered competitors so I can’t understand what they where looking for there to start with. Actually, during this time I was not especially happy with Justin and if they caught any e-mail between us, it was pretty much not nice words I would guess. Now I’m quite happy he’s fighting the cause, all respect to him for that. (Although, I’m still pretty much upset with his FileRights-initiative…)

I’m starting to think that we’ve had enough by now. This is more and more looking like a war. The war between good and evil, the war between the future and the past. It’s the oil of the 21st century - people will do whatever in order to win. Their money against our knowledge and spirit. And I know who will win. And we won’t take any prisoners.