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Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities

Posted by chrisd on from the no-mention-of-peg-legs-and-eye-patches dept.

akiaki007 was among many who wrote in to say: "Check out this article on the New York Times (free reg, blah blah) site. The Feds have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include MIT, UCLA, Purdue, Duke, UofO. Their main target was the group DrinkOrDie. 'This is a new frontier for crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide my burned Linux CD's. They might think it's some weird hacking tool."

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  1. Responses here not surprising, unfortunately by Brad+Wilson · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    I'm not surprised by the responses we're seeing here. I just think it illustrates the unfortunate situation that a valuable concept like public domain or open source software has to be overly infested with thieves who believe that stealing software or pirating movies in the theaters "doesn't hurt anybody".

    Say that when it's your own livelihood that's being stolen.

  2. "This is a serious crime." by vmalloc_ · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    "This is not a sport," Commerce undersecretary Phil Bond said. "This is a serious crime. These people should do some hard time."

    Oh my god. They have the NERVE to do crap like this right now? Aren't these people supposed to be helping trace down terrorists, instead of arresting teenagers in their bedrooms because they can't afford $500 worth of photo editing software and movies? The BSA must have bribed a LOT of people.

    This is slowly becoming my favorite sentence: Animals don't belong in cages, politicans do.

    -vmalloc