MPAA: Save Hollywood for us and Become Rich
In a shocking interview with Wired, hacker Robert Anderson tells how the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) paid $15,000 and promised power if he provided confidential information on TorrentSpy.
According to Anderson, MPAA allured him with nice paying job, a house, a car, anything he needed to “save Hollywood”. They also wanted to set up a fake Torrent site.
Anderson cracked TorrentSpy’s servers by simply guessing an administrative password. He knew the password was weak - a combination of a name and some numbers (guessed in little over 30 tries). Once inside, he programmed TorrentSpy’s mail system to relay e-mail to a newly created external account he could access.
He sucked down about three dozen pages of e-mails detailing banking, advertising and other confidential information. Anderson proposed to implement an anti-piracy marketing campaign for the MPAA. He also offered to provide inside information on TorrentSpy.
Anderson’s account shows that the content industry may be willing to go to significant - and some say ethically questionable - lengths in its war against online piracy, and that it is determined to keep its methods secret. The MPAA’s use of Anderson is turning out to be like the MediaDefender - Email issue.
Meanwhile, the MPAA has not disputed the payment but told Wired that “the MPAA obtains information from third parties only if it believes the evidence has been collected legally.” They also deny the fake Torrent story.
You mean it’s wrong for the MPAA to use hacking and other illegal means to fight against technology they are unwilling to adapt and use to profit from?
What is this world coming to.
Anderson seems very brazen for being a right sneaky fecker.
I’d be keeping alower profile if I was him…
Big Brother counts and depends on the traitors like this guy to be able to do anything.
Destroy his minions and he will be just an observer.
Hope someone will make an example with this moron.
Anderson is a piece of sh t!Down with him & his cronies!
Would not suprize me to read about this ahole found dead some day.
get ready rlslog.net
You are next !
Muhahahahahahahahaaaa
He told… Doesn’t seem like much of an ahole to me…
The fact he got into the site so damn easy is amazing, and it is their own fault.
Even my passwords are better than that.’
But the MPAA are worse than the pirates them selfs.
How lame from Robert Anderson.
How lame from Robert Anderson.
Reminds me of Splinter Cell or Deus EX: invisible war. Stoopid Illuminati.
Robert Anderson is nothing more than a SNITCH!
Yep hez a grass nothing more uck him and the mpaa NO SURRENDER!!!
MPAA, you troll,
saying this for months now, a bit boring ain’t it?
yes MPAA, go back to sucking c0ck
MPAA My ass..
The only way to stop piracy forever is that MPAA Morons shut down Internet itself which unfortunately these ASS BAGS CAN’T do..MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
how bad is it??? like can mpaa or robert get others accounts info like what they downloaded cause in that case i’m shutting my account there down
agent anderson,,the matrix will beat you
much as I like you guys, I’d sell out in a heartbeat.
Anderson if you think you are big enough even to get noticed you are wrong, there is always who is big enough
You are a hacker (a pirate) instead of helping the enemy for a couple of dollars, join the right side, become a new “anti-media defender”, that’s how you will prove your ability not by hacking those who invented hankering
@6 hillarious anyways lol this is hella interesting for me ..mpaa will never get us, ever since the creation of ip spoofing, nothing will stop us…unless they pay the scene out..but new scene will take its place it will never stop forever lol..epoepl will just go back to secure data transfer…it will be worse but still their mpaa…give up your ridiculous prices !!
If the MPAA is looking at this i will grass up a few local chinese dvd traders i know of for a 1.oz of cocaine 3 1-9 duplicators an oz of hashish a new car and a new wife thats not a bad deal
Not really any different than the dude played by DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can. Does anybody use PGP anymore?
yo would be good idea for rlslog to change ur passwords tht idiot anderson might try somthing on this site and all this hard work you lots are doing will be flushed in seconds any 1 just a pointer
@23,
That’s true man. Imagine a guy “guessing” password in 30 tries or so! For some 6-8 character alpha-numeric password, the permutation and combination is too high to take a guess. Dunno if it’s fluke or talent…
30 tries…thats brutal…the only way that is even remotely possible is if he was either staff at some point, or he knows the admin personally and was given hints on what the password could be. I dont care how bad your password is, unless it is 12345, it would take more than 30 tries to figure out…
Besides, torrent spy is useless. The moment they do this to TPB will be the end of everything we hold dear. Lets pray there are no traitors on their staff…
I still dont get it…
Why are they trying so hard ?
Isnt it obvious enough that besides spam senders, illegal sharing, and movie rips… that they cannot stop it.
They close one source, 100 others simply emerge filling their purpose.
Torrent Spy is totally something else..
Demonoid is also another.
Piratebay, and so on…
@Frostii
YOu have it wrong. Ever since Napster was shut down in 2001, they have been winning. The music industry should have all of this file sharing wiped out in the next 6-8 months. You’ll see.
I’m going to assume from #27’s name that they are being sarcastic or trying to stir up argument. Those are the only sane assumptions.
This is just another case of technology advancing too fast for the mpaa and riaa to keep up with. It is available on the net, and it is available at our video stores. I enjoy the fact that the mpaa is going after users when in fact we are just using legal technology that is available to us. We are not lawyers or legal eagles, and if they don’t want it made available maybe they should in fact just sue the internet.However, since al gore just won a nobel I am sure he will laugh at them, and bill gates will probably just write it off on his income tax. As long as they leave rlslog.net and sherdog.com on I am fine.
heheheh the government / governments can and will continue to do whatever they want. If you dont think that the internet could be shut down you’re an idiot. Good hackers have already demonstrated that they can do that and much more. Now, think about hackers that are funded by government spooks….what do you think they could do? ANYTHING they wanted without fear of any repercussions.
Jacksmack you have been watching too many movies. No they can’t. Its the fear of them being able to do stuff that keeps most people worried.
Considering the information they received was done illegally, wouldn’t that make any evidence they gathered inadmissable in a court of law? Civil court you say? Would this interview not open a counter-suit against Robert Anderson and the MPAA for illegally obtaining information?
@ CaptainHack
If you dont think its a reality, I suggest you do a
little reading mr “Hack”. If you don’t think the US
and other governments employ hackers for nefarious
purposes then you are a sheep like everyone else.
The Internet is the last safe haven that they don’t
have complete control over….yet. And that is what
this is really about. Control. It’s what it’s
always been about. And corporations employ these
tactics all the time.