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Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities
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."
There's this Thinkgeek add on the top of my page now that reads something like: "CDs, great for ... pirated software (don't worry, we won't tell)." I always knew they were up to no good.
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#nohup cat
Luckily they are only cracking down on people at expensive schools.. Should be quite a while before they get to state schools in the cornfields of illinois..
Like I would have paid for XP?
MSNBC and Wired. Seems that no one was arrested (in the US, at least - 5 people were in England). One customs agent said each computer has an average of 1-2 terabytes of software (Wired article). Wow.
-David Ziegler
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Although he had to say:
This is not a sport, this is a crime," Mr. Bond said, adding that punishment could be "serious hard time" in prison.
What he really wanted to say was:
They're not going to some white collar resort prison. No, no, no! They're going to federal POUND ME IN THE ASS prison!"
Computers don't make mistakes. What they do, they do on purpose.
I've never been investigated by the Boy Scouts of America.
From the DoJ site:
"Bandwidth, through the joint efforts of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General (EPA-OIG), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), supervised by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada, created a 'warez' site, controlled and monitored by the undercover operation, as a means of attracting predicated targets involved with the distribution of pirated software. "
I can see the FBI and the DoJ being involved in this operation, but why the hell was the enviromental protection agency have to do with this? The piracy of corprate software has nothing to do plants or air pollution.
I'm sure the EPA was actually secretly dissolved by the Bush administration and was replaced by a DoJ brute squad using the same name.
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A rabbit in the hand is worth 4 in the cage
I have a friend who is big time into piracy. Every time we get together he wants to give me some new game he ripped. Then he emails me 5Meg cracks to the rips. Constantly. He whines if I won't take them.
So I offered to burn him a copy of Slackware. "Why would I want it?" he said, "It's already free. Duh!"
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
I dunno about that, man, one time my warez CD burn buffer underran; so in frustration I broke the CD in half and cut my hand in the process...
You can run but you can't hide, except, apparently, along the Afghan-Pakistani border.
You're just jealous because the warez scene at Bob Jones' consists of Bible software, DC Talk mp3s, and third generation VHS copies of "The Omega Code".
It's a really big global network that you need to join; Memberz of Warez. Dues are collected on a semi-annual basis, though you get a really nifty "Memberz of Warez" mug for christmas. Apparently, there's a conspiracy here....
.ak.plt.
Hey, I know you! You were the CEO at my old .com who kept telling us that profits didn't matter!
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Serious? I never heard of such a thing: perfectly working copies of Windows! Where can I find some? Or are you pulling my leg?
Solomon
"Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang
> What is the FBI so afraid of? Someone using Photoshop and Kai's power tools to distort the presidents face?
No, they're afraid of someone using Photoshop to make a picture with a stern looking Bert peering over his shoulder.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Wow... The net suddenly got so quiet after the warez busts.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/#graphs
Indeed.
Slashdot engages in massive copyright infringement every day - don't believe me? Go to SLASHDOT'S L33T WAREZ SECTION FOR GAMEZ AND APPZ
By the way, there are some programs that deserve to be pirated
(for the humor impaired, warez.slashdot.org resolves to 127.0.0.1)
>They're studying the economics of the 0-cost model!
Don't you mean the 0-day model?
Piracy is bad
so says the S.B.A group
remember Linux is FREE
Copy that Floppy
Bill Gates needs no more money
think Blue Screen of Death
stealing this software
putting it up on Kazaa
FEDs talking to Mom!
M.I.T. and Duke
Homes to the Drink or Die Crew
How bout cracking books!
Leet Warez Kiddies rule!
I Have all the zero day wares
Never kissed a girl.
when they ban enctryption only criminals wi$21*J *#JF$%!@#$':