If you did it - that is, if you made a living by flooding the Net with bandwidth-sucking trojans - your ISP would ax your account in about 10 seconds. But for Marc Morgenstern and Randy Saaf, it's OK.

The former is president of Overpeer and the latter has the same position at MediaDefender. And the RIAA and MPAA love them both because they run companies which help Hollywood to put the hex on file-sharers.

Marc's web page just has a logo and an address. Randy's MediaDefender says it's in 'stealth mode' but the site isn't blank. Rather, it has a huge list of links showing how Randy's been saving the world from the evils of p2p.

With MediaForce, they seem to be the Favaoured Ones. That's to say, the RIAA and MPAA like them - really like them

Then you have BayTSP, Copyright.net, Media Enforcer and Ranger Online, none of which are as modest as Marc and Randy's companies.

BayTSP's page, for example, says it's in the business of "copyright tracking and brand protection" while Ranger online claims, delicately, to "relieve you of the complexity and drudgery of data collection across the Internet's many protocols so you can focus on the more productive analytical and decision-related tasks".

MediaFarce works for Warner Bros and does much the same.

A couple of years ago Copyright.net ID'd more than a million file-sharers for the Roy Orbison Music Co.

In 2001, BayTSP, Copyright.net and Media Enforcer formed an alliance to, "Offer An End-To-End Licensing Solutions To The Music Industry". But only BayTSP appears to have survived the partnership. It swallowed Media Enforcer whole and at the time of writing (8:00 am, PT) Copyright.net's page wasn't loading.

There's also McCartney Multimedia with its 'NetWatch Online Copyright Enforcement System'. And McCartney has what it obviously thinks is a neat, and a propos, approach in its promo blurb, to wit:

Every Move They Make
Every Click They Take
Every Link They Fake
Every Law They Break
We'll Be Watching ...

No doubt they have permission from The Police to paraphrase.

MONEY is what drives these people, but the public is now educated or is being educated on the greed of the record companies behind the RIAA!!

"No doubt they have permission from The Police to paraphrase."

don't be silly, major-label bands don't own their own copyrights anymore!

And maybe I'll just send an old trojan to MediDefender. How do ya like them apples?

Wow, and MediaDefender even mis-quoted The Matrix.

-Ben

Don't forget "Ranger" the MPAA's merc of choice...

Assholes! I hate them all!...Can someone point me to the right place to recognize the bad ISP's to load into my Peerguardian. I mean the addresses or whatever it is I need to put in there to hide from those snake licking inbreds?

They probably caught onto that trick by now and started borrowing address ranges from ISPs.

Kazaa and the rest should include a popup designating BOTS , MPAA, and RIAA employees and agents as banned from the service, and advise them they are unwanted trespassesrs and cannot legally participate in the service, nor intrude on member computers!

BOYCOTT THE BASTARDS!