Jim Louderback

Web TV Net Revision3 Hit by Anti-Piracy Firm MediaDefender

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 30, 2008 - 10:03am.

Los Angeles - The FBI is reportedly investigating MediaDefender, an anti-piracy firm often hired by record labels and movie studios, after the company allegedly initiated a denial of service attack last weekend against Revision3, a legitimate online TV network. In a blog post, Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback recounted the events, noting that the attack focused on the server the company uses to seed content on the BitTorrent file-sharing network -- which also happens to be used for illegal file-sharing.