After the largest ever BitTorrent leak where over 6,000 internal e-mails of MediaDefender surfaced on TorrentFreak yesterday, the following e-mail regarding the firm’s attempts to monitor and disrupt p2p traffic to Ares was revealed as well:

Re: Intermittent Ares behavior

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• To: “Ty Heath” <heath@mediadefender.com>, “Jay Mairs” <jay@mediadefender.com>
• Subject: Re: Intermittent Ares behavior
• From: “Randy Saaf” <randy@mediadefender.com>
• Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 22:06:22 -0700
• Authentication-results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of randy@mediadefender.com designates 65.120.42.14 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=randy@mediadefender.com
• Cc: “Ben Grodsky” <grodsky@mediadefender.com>
• Delivered-to: mdjaym@gmail.com
• Thread-index: Acfx1W5XZyFBD99BRoaWP14iLYA/xQAAJE9u
• Thread-topic: Intermittent Ares behavior

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Title: Re: Intermittent Ares behavior

Awesome have a good wknd.

—– Original Message —–
From: Ty Heath
To: Jay Mairs
Cc: Randy Saaf; Ben Grodsky
Sent: Fri Sep 07 22:01:43 2007
Subject: Intermittent Ares behavior

Ares should hit more consistently on different computers now. Build
3030, the current version, was displaying weird behavior where our
protection would hit on some computers and not on others.

Ty

infoSlut ran a query on LinkedIn’s database to highlight every employee who has ever worked for MediaDefender, and up comes the search listings with former and current MediaDefender employees. Note to HR professionals, recruiters and managers: here’s your bounty, all it takes is head-hunting them off LinkedIn, am sure they will be looking for change in the industry after this leak