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."

Comments

MIT is a haven for piracy

[bconway]

I have a good deal of experience with MIT and their network, and for some reason the administration there thinks that any and all network activites should be allowed and are for some reason granted under free speech (as evidenced by, among other things, fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu), including piracy of software, music, and movies. I'm really not sure what's going through their heads or why they consistently look the other way (join MIT, pay to pirate all you want and we'll protect you!), but I've SERIOUSLY seen less piracy in a number of Asian cities selling "questionable" goods on recorded media. What a disgrace.

Gee! Can I move to your planet?

[Fantastic Lad]

Personally, I think you're dead wrong. What you and many others seem to forget is that the US is still a republic. Now I realise that could change and we could become a dictatorship, but I find that highly unlikely.

The U.S. is already a dictatorship. Did you miss the last election, or was the cheesy writing of that choreographed event too subtle for you?

Anyway, this whole kafuffle about software piracy is nothing new, and who the hell cares? The Evil Overlords WANT you to be plugged into your flickering boxes, because they make you soft and dumb and easy to control. GTA3 and all those retarded shooting games? Whether or not they create Columbine Kids is totally irrelivent. Fact is, the power/money/establisment people THINK that such games raise the danger level of society, which makes it easier for heavier internal security measures to be passed into law.

No matter what the playing field happens to look like over the next ten years, whether you have to pay through the nose, duck arrests or trade software in a free for all, Joe Asshole WILL be plugged in, he WILL think that his choice to be plugged in will have been un-affected by the general miasma of social programming which surrounds us all, and as a result, his brain WILL be all mushy and ripe for 'instruction' and easy control.

What are YOU going to do about it?

-Fantastic Lad