Sony is reportedly using controversial practices from the past again , this time to prevent the discovery of so-called critical documents about copyright agreements with television networks, actor payments, film budgets and much more that are hidden in the 100 terabytes that the unknown "Peacekeepers" stole in late November from the Sony Pictures internal network .
[alert variation=”alert-info”]In the past, when record companies and film producers saw the distribution of copyrighted content on the Internet as a huge threat, the tactic adopted by Sony became known. The revelation came after a strike by the so‑called MediaDefender-Defenders, who stole hundreds of MB of messages from MediaDefender, the company that tried to block unauthorized downloading of songs and movies from the Internet on behalf of record companies and Hollywood studios. From those e‑mails it then became known that the company had secretly set up a trap website that invited visitors to upload videos in order to identify who were the ones funneling copyrighted content onto the Internet. MediaDefender denied it, however at least one e‑mail revealed that the use of a website (Miivi.com) was discussed for covert software transfer to users' computers that would deliver and flood file‑sharing networks with spam files. Thus, torrent users found themselves spending hours trying to download these files, thinking they were movies.[/alert]
Now, re/code reveals, citing two people close to Sony, that the studio is attempting to deal a blow to the websites that have been known to make its films and data available. This time, however, the method it has chosen is distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. That is, Sony is said to be attempting to make these websites inaccessible - including not only torrent sites but also PasteBin - due to a load of requests from virtual users in Asia, using Amazon's leased services from its centers in Singapore and Tokyo.
Meanwhile, on December 10, 2014 the file-sharing site Pirate Bay, along with its numerous copies worldwide, remained offline after servers were seized in Sweden.
Source: tech.in.gr
