Editing MediaDefender (section)

==Revision3 controversy==
[[Revision3]] is an [[Internet television|Internet television network]] which distributes video content legally through various means, including the BitTorrent protocol. During the [[Memorial Day]] weekend in 2008, Revision3 came under a [[Denial of Service]] attack originating from MediaDefender IP addresses. The attack left the company's service inaccessible until mid-Tuesday the following week. Revision3 CEO [[Jim Louderback]] accused MediaDefender of injecting its [[Spoofing (anti-piracy measure)|decoy files]] into Revision3's BitTorrent service through a [[Vulnerability (computing)|vulnerability]], then automatically perpetrating the attack after Revision3 increased security.<ref>[http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3 Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721014755/http://revision3.com/blog/2008/05/29/inside-the-attack-that-crippled-revision3/ |date=2013-07-21 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-outage30-2008may30,0,4328786.story Anti-piracy misfire blamed for crash of popular online TV network]</ref>

Randy Saaf defended MediaDefender's actions by stating "Our systems were targeting a tracker not even knowing it was Revision3's tracker", adding that the denial-of-service attack resulted when "Revision3 changed some configurations" to their [[BitTorrent tracker]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=MediaDefender Defends Revision3 SYN Attack |date=2008-05-31 |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327230304/https://www.wired.com/2008/05/mediadefender-d/ |archive-date=2023-03-27 |url-status=live |url=https://www.wired.com/2008/05/mediadefender-d}}</ref>