Originally Posted by Manic_Skafe

While no one can deny that it's not fair to publicly leak sensitive information - I hope that the guilt the leakers felt was rather pale in comparison to those of the Media Defender employees when it came time to cash their paychecks.

I skimmed the emails and to see that they actually leaked full albums, movies, and even video games with the sole intent of luring people in to bust them is ridiculous. It makes you wonder if the artists, screenwriters and directors, and gaming companies knew that their media would be leaked. However, it doesn't make you wonder at all why people would rather risk going to jail than give money to such an industry.

The fact that the music industry needs to be revamped is almost as obvious as the fact that these mega-companies waste their time and their efforts by suing a small fraction of the people illegally proliferate copyrighted media. And while they can continue on with lawsuits, DRM schemes, and companies like Media Defender - they'd much better off if they came up with new ideas on keeping the industry profitable.

Seems to me like they got exactly what they had coming to them.