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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hackers who intercepted e-mail from MediaDefender Inc., a firm that tries to stymie unauthorized downloading of songs and movies on behalf of record companies and Hollywood film studios, have released hundreds of megabytes of data on the Internet.
The hackers, who identified themselves as "MediaDefender-Defenders," over the weekend posted a 700-plus-megabyte file of e-mails and an audio recording of what appears to be a 25-minute conference call between MediaDefender executives and law enforcement officials.
Some of the leaked e-mails appeared to bolster the idea that MediaDefender was secretly operating a Web site where computer users could upload videos and using it to track users who shared copyrighted files without permission, allegations that surfaced in recent months among technology bloggers and the online file-sharing community.
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