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As some of you might know, there was a fun little leak a week ago, where almost 700 MB of internal emails from Media Defender(a well known company that make fake files/torrents, trace traffic and try to find people to sue for the movie and music companies) got put out on torrent sites for public download, causing minor scandals like exposing their strategies for a honeypot/entrapment site, and a few other goodies. If you havent read that fun little story, details can be found here:
http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-e ... ed-070915/

But now the Piratebay guys have found a load of other intersting info in those emails, enough that they have enough evidence that the record and movie companies are hiring hackers and ddos attackers, so they have now filed a police report agains the companies.

Here are the full info from The Pirate Bay:
TPB files charges against media companies
Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we now have proof of the things we've been suspecting for a long time; the big record and movie labels are paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy our trackers.

While browsing through the email we identified the companies that are also active in Sweden and we have tonight reported these incidents to the police. The charges are infrastructural sabotage, denial of service attacks, hacking and spamming, all of these on a commercial level.

The companies that are being reported are the following:


Twentieth Century Fox, Sweden AB
Emi Music Sweden AB
Universal Music Group Sweden AB
Universal Pictures Nordic AB
Paramount Home Entertainment (Sweden) AB
Atari Nordic AB
Activision Nordic Filial Till Activision (Uk) Ltd
Ubisoft Sweden AB
Sony Bmg Music Entertainment (Sweden) AB
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Nordic AB

This could get very interesting indeed.

This is awesome, it's not like people didn't know that the media companies had to be doing questionable/illegal things to catch other people doing questionable/illegal things, but I'm estatic that someone finally has some proof of it.

I have a feeling this could end up having some shitty consequences for everyone though.

The companies will plow down money and they will get away with a reprimand, and a discussion about a lawless internet will float around in media for some weeks. =)