I’m getting hits on a regular basis on a blog about my art, videography and music experiments from Performance Systems International Inc. (PSI). They don’t come in on a search but are direct traffic with identical stats on each visit. Who are they and what do they want?
Speculation on various blogs states PSI may be associated with MediaDefender "a notorious anti piracy gang who have worked for the MPAA, RIAA and several independent media production companies." (Ref) This particular post goes on to say that they "just launched their very own video upload service called ‘miivi.com’. The sole purpose of the site is to trap people into uploading copyrighted material, and bust them for doing so." Ugly.
If it is in fact these snoopers visiting my blog my guess is that it’s because I have my own, self created, me as artist MP3s with metadata on my blog.
Chasing down MP3 users by scanning websites for MP3s seems futile and like a stupid waste of time. I resent that by merely using MP3 technology, my site’s been targeted for snooping.
Posted on March 13th, 2008 | filed under Miscellaneous, Sound | Trackback |
I too have been hit by these people. I do not blog or publish much of anything, but in the past I have been very critical of the MPAA and RIAA – I consider them to be mafia controlled operations and have said so in the past. Since then I have been constantly hacked – by markmonitor, and PSI and others – they seem to be stooge operations designed to monetise the DMCA and Patriot acts by the deliberate entrapment of innocent people – I even suspect them of zombiing peoples computers and then downloading illicit materials just so they can be demonised and then exploited by the draconian measures put in place by the DMCA and Patriot act. Why? money and IP theft, and to silence those whose words they do not like – no matter how innocent or innocuous they may be.
I think they should be reported to the FBI. And enough noise be made to make sure the FBI follows through and catches the scum that hide under the aegis of patriotism, who use the DMCA and Patroit act, to line their own filthy pockets with money basically lifted from the pockets of the dead…