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darthpsychotic

Posted: June 30th 2005 6:34 pm

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http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2005/June/05_crm_353.htm

The release groups targeted by Site Down specialize in the distribution of all types of pirated works including utility and application software, movies, music, and games. Among the warez groups hit yesterday are: RiSCISO, Myth, TDA, LND, Goodfellaz, Hoodlum, Vengeance, Centropy, Wasted Time, Paranoid, Corrupt, Gamerz, AdmitONE, Hellbound, KGS, BBX, KHG, NOX, NFR, CDZ, TUN, and BHP. These groups alone are allegedly responsible for stealing, cracking and distributing hundreds of well-known titles, such as Autodesk’s Autocad 2006, Adobe’s Photoshop, and the movies “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” and “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” Operation Site Down is expected to dismantle many of these international warez syndicates and significantly disrupt the illicit operations of others.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6586.cfm

Report: Several raids in Internet Piracy Crackdown

30 June 2005 7:50 by Dela

It is being reported on some news sites that some raids took place today against Internet "warez" groups. It has been confirmed so far that there was at least one arrest against a Fremont man. Chirayu Patel, 24, was arrested yesterday accused of setting up hardware and running a site for a group called Boozers; who are famous online for releasing pirated DVDR copies of movies. Apparently the FBI unmasked a number of piracy groups by making massive amounts of storage space available to them.

On these 2 servers provided by the FBI and 2 servers provided by "warez group members", 27TB of data appeared including movies like Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith just hours after their first theatre showings. Patel is alleged to have become a "Site Op" who used one of the undercover servers and uploaded loads of video games, architectural software and movies.

While now there are only a couple of news sources writing about it, the rumours have been buzzing around the Internet all morning with some details reaching us slowly. Apparently, raids were also targeted against the leaders of groups Centropy and TDA. Some other details that have come this way include the apparent nickname of one federal agent involved - Griffen.

An announcement by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is expected today with details on the larger investigation. We will keep up to date as more details come clear.

Source:
Mercury News (Subscription)

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MTH

Posted: June 30th 2005 6:39 pm

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I'm going to make a shirt that says "Osama Bin Laden is pirating music". Maybe someone from the DOJ will see it and get an 11 country task force together to go finally find his ass.

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Ayatollah Krispies

Posted: June 30th 2005 7:25 pm

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I think so. I don't know how much credit they deserve for finally getting their heads out of their asses, though. The question now is whether they will trace the links back to the studio sources that are supplying advance copies of DVD screeners and such.

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Ayatollah Krispies

Posted: June 30th 2005 7:51 pm

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Well, it kind of depends on where, what and how you download. Very little of the stuff I look for comes from the scene -- I don't really care for Telesync movies, or software I have to crack, etc. Even the ROTS Xvids weren't from the scene, or at least they were from some group that didn't want to be identified.

BitTorrent networks have become a kind of grass-roots movement, and there's probably as much stuff uploaded by individuals as by warez groups. As long as material continues to be made available in digital format, it'll be shared.

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Bandersnatch

Posted: June 30th 2005 8:37 pm

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stacy3po wrote:

I have the same theory for the money spent on "Catwoman"

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MTH

Posted: June 30th 2005 8:39 pm

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After reading about this latest raid, I decided to write my rep in the US House to see if he could explain to me why my tax dollars are being wasted. Hopefully he will write back with a decent answer, but I doubt he will.

MTH to the Honorable Melvin Watt wrote:

Dear Mr. Watt,
I have a simple yet baffling question that has bothered me for some time now. Why does our Congress keep wasting their time and my tax dollars on issues that really have no meaning to the average citizen? Two issues have brought me to the point of writing you this letter. The first is the amount of time and money Congress spent wrangling over steroids in professional sports. I guarantee you that 90% of the population really couldn't care less. I know I don't care. Couldn't the time and money being wasted debating how many times Mark McGuire shot up be used to find a way to feed needy children or help someone get off of welfare? I would hate to think that our elected leaders have nothing better to do while in session than debate the many reasons why Bud Selig is a horrible league commissioner. The second issue I have is the recent action the Department of Justice took against online file sharers. I saw on the news where the DOJ organized an 11 country sting operation to bring down the warez groups responsible for a lot of online file trading. My question is this: if the DOJ is so efficient at organizing huge sting operations such as the one I mentioned above, why can't they take the same approach and organize many countries to find Osama Bin Laden or Zarqawi? Ask yourself which is more important, finding the most wanted men on the planet or arresting some guy sitting behind a computer. I realize that copyright laws are important, but I believe that finding a known mass murderer is just a slight bit more important. I'm sorry if I seem like I am rambling or being disrespectful (which I do not intend to be), but I do wish to know why I should feel comfortable with the way my tax dollars are being spent. Thank you for your time.

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MTH

Posted: July 1st 2005 9:03 pm

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cod doc wrote:

Honorable Melvin Watt wrote:

suck my cock you're the laymen

That is exactly the response I expect.

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Swedish Chef

Posted: July 2nd 2005 4:16 am

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The Feds really need to figure out what their priorities are.

You show me a 15-35 yr old who owns a computer and uses the internet that doesn't do anything illegal on it, and I'll show you a liar. Every one of us on here, everyone of us out there on the net has, at one time or another, downloaded or traded porn, mp3s, video and movies, and software. There's simply no way to get us all. And if they did, half this country would be either in jail or stuck in litigation. The courts would overcrowd and it would all stink to high heaven and the DOJ would have absolutely NO resources or manpower left to go after terrorists and criminals.

So, they need to realise that this cat-and-mouse stuff isn't going to work. And neither is busting John Q Public for having mp3s or movies on his computer. This shit makes no sense whatsoever, but nothing's being done because they don't listen to the people that fund their operations (taxpayers), they only listen to the whims of the corporations that whine and cry because they lost such and such amount of revenue, even though they're obviously not doing too bad since they're all still making movies and music. Seems the losses indicated aren't matching up with the hysteria it is causing.

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Guru

Posted: July 2nd 2005 9:26 am

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Good point. If we all commit these heinous "crimes" then perhaps we're not the ones in the wrong. Dunno about you guys but I don't just download stuff - I also buy it. And whether the lawmakers agree or not is irrelvant, but there is a vast difference to intellectual copyright theft and physical theft.
And if these people were to steal from a little old granny and take her life savings would there ever be such an investigation like this? Erm, no.

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Guru

Posted: July 2nd 2005 10:44 am

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Well yeah. Expensive software used to come with dongles which were expensive to manufacture. Didn't stop the software from being cracked so they stopped making them, they were defeated and knew it.

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Swedish Chef

Posted: July 3rd 2005 12:58 am

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Eh, it's just a last gasp from an industry that has had its technical accomplishments come back and bite it in the ass.

One way or another, the industry will forego all of this crap as soon as the next marketable technology arrives. Then hackers will find a way to reverse it, hack it, copy it, and then all this broohaha over mp3s and movies will be a thing of the past. Don't think so? Well, you don't much see the Feds dragging people to court over VHS copyright infringement, do you? Why? Because the technology and its mass market appeal superceded their ability to do anything about it.

What shocks and slightly scares me is that we're talking about this from a very rational perspective, offering rational opinions and solutions. Why isn't the government doing this as well? Are we that smart, or are the people that work for the government just that fucking dumb?!

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SkyWard

Posted: July 4th 2005 8:39 pm

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Insert Username

Posted: July 4th 2005 8:59 pm

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Look, the fact of the matter is that I'm going to get the material that I want so why go hell for leather trying to stop me? Whether it's a torrent or some other p2p software or I rent a DVD/game and rip the fucker myself.....it's going to happen either way.

Hollywood and the music industry should be punching on themselves for jumping on the digital bandwagon in the 80's, it's not my fault they're near-sighted in business and didn't understand the repurcussions of changing the way the world consumes media. Boo fucking hoo.

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Ayatollah Krispies

Posted: July 4th 2005 9:06 pm

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Insert Username wrote:

it's not my fault they're near-sighted in business and didn't understand the repurcussions of changing the way the world consumes media.

Prefuckincisely. They embraced digital media wholeheartedly because it's cheap as shit to mass produce, and then got burned when the dweebs sitting at their computers learned how to do it even more cheaply. These compression methods were invented for data storage in the first place, not for music and movies, so it shouldn't have been too hard to see where it would all lead to.

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