Media Defender to Spam P2P Networks With 16,000,000 Tracks from One Artist

sickamore · #1 (**permalink**) 07-08-2007, 08:36 PM

Spam comes in many shapes and forms and today we have news that anti-piracy company Media Defender has hooked up with telecoms company Sprint and Atlantic Records to give away 16 million free tracks on P2P networks. However, don’t get too excited, its 16 million tracks from one artist.

It’s being reported that Telecoms company Sprint has signed on the dotted line to form a partnership between themselves, Atlantic Records and Media Defender’s ArtistDirect.

The partnership is all about advertising. Sprint has bought the rights to have their name and logo embedded into tracks from the Atlantic Records hip-hop artist Plies.

It appears that Atlantic will supply Media Defender with a small number of Plies tracks, which will then be embedded with the Sprint logo which will appear on PC screens and digital devices playing the tracks. In return for a reported six-figure investment shared between the anti-piracy outfit, Atlantic Records and Plies, Media Defender will then flood P2P networks with the tracks over a 3 month period. Previously, Media Defender worked with Suretone Records to spam P2P networks with partial songs and videos in an attempt to generate traffic to their client’s website.

ArtistDirect’s CEO Jon Diamond said the project has a three-pronged approach of generating advertising revenue for record labels, linking brands to a particular artist to reach a certain demographic and in the process, limiting piracy.

However, most file-sharers want a plain MP3 track with nothing added and are unlikely to want tracks which cause advertising pop-ups or similar on their PC. As ‘vanilla’ MP3’s of tracks from the same artist will be widely available on the same P2P networks, it’s likely that file-sharers will be drawn towards those downloads instead of the ‘infected’ versions offered by Media Defender. So, this strategy will most likely NOT limit piracy.

Besides setting up fake BitTorrent trackers and fake video download sites, Media Defender is currently in talks with other artists and is likely to announce similar partnerships shortly.

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hueydewey · #2 (**permalink**) 07-08-2007, 08:48 PM

this should prove very interesting to say the least

sickamore · #3 (**permalink**) 07-08-2007, 09:30 PM

Until some one shoves something down media defend what their mouth they won't stop. what they don't know is that big things comes in small packages but also get blown up with a big bang.

hueydewey · #4 (**permalink**) 07-08-2007, 09:42 PM

your statement is quite true...sometimes places have a tendancy to overload there arse...henceforth my statement.."this ought to be interesting"

sickamore · #5 (**permalink**) 07-08-2007, 09:55 PM

In the process of them uploading so much fake files they are spending money and wasting their time. probably there is a new way of download being developed who knows, i mean i never thought i would be seeing torrents but its the best way to go. why should i buy and not share with people across the world. you know wha i mean.

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