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As one guy put it: "This story is awesome, in its purest most refined form."
from wiki:
"In February 2007, MediaDefender launched a video sharing site called Miivi.com that according to p2pnet news was developed in order to trap unsuspecting uploaders of copyrighted content. The sites origins were discovered by a blogger who looked up Miivi.com domain registration information. After news travelled throughout the blogosphere, the site was shut down on 7/04/2007. MediaDefender, however, denied allegations that it was trying to convict anyone. In an interview with Ars Technica, MediaDefender claimed that "MediaDefender was working on an internal project that involved video and didn't realize that people would be trying to go to it and so we didn't password-protect the site." MediaDefender blamed file sharing groups such as The Pirate Bay for starting the story. When questioned, the MPAA denied any involvement with MediaDefender."
In short antipirate company sets up trojan p2p site, gets found out then makes up bulshit cover-up story.
Now this happens:
http://torrentfreak.com/mediadefender-emails-leaked-070915/
700mb of internal secret mediadefender emails have been leaked 
among some of the really juicy bits are:
"Let’s start off with their response to our story about MiiVi.com.
From: Ben Grodsky
Sent: Tue 03-Jul-07 20:19
To: MIIVI; Randy Saaf; Octavio Herrera; Steve Lyons
Subject: MiiVi got Dugg
Looks like the domain transfer has screwed us over:
http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-gang-launches-their-own
-video-download-site-to-trap-people/
http://digg.com/users/AcePup/news/dugg
-Ben
And the response from Randy Saaf himself.
This is really fucked.
Let’s pull miivi offline.
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