Revision3, home of web TV show ‘Diggnation,’ shuts down for three days after its computers are overwhelmed. The culprit: traffic sent by anti-piracy company MediaDefender. Both firms cry foul.

One of the most popular Internet-based television networks was shut down all weekend, a casualty in the entertainment industry’s fight against pirated material.

The outage at Revision3, which features shows such as “Diggnation” and others targeted at techies, highlighted the risks of serious collateral damage in the usually invisible but bare-knuckled technological war between copyright holders and pirates.

The victimized company said today that the culprit was MediaDefender, a Santa Monica firm that distributes fake music and video files on the Internet in order to fight piracy. The shutdown resembled the denial-of-service attacks often used by cyber-criminals and other malicious hackers, but Revision3 and MediaDefender said the outage was accidental.

Hum you mean that the RIAA stooges are now going after all torrent sites? This could be a good fight to watch as the group over at Revision3 are not the type to say oh it was a mistake that is okay. Oh no I bet that after the FBI gets done there will be a lawsuit or two coming out of it. And as far as I am concerned I for one am glad to see it.

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