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Operation Fastlink Cracks Down on Warez

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-can-only-get-messier dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Beginning yesterday morning, law enforcement from 10 countries and the United States conducted over 120 searches worldwide to dismantle some of the most well-known and prolific online piracy organizations. Among the groups targeted by Operation Fastlink are well-known organizations such as Fairlight, Kalisto, Echelon, Class and Project X, all of which specialized in pirating computer games, and music release groups such as APC. The enforcement action announced today is expected to dismantle many of these international warez syndicates and significantly impact the illicit operations of others."

18 of 1,052 comments (clear)

  1. Oh no! by kneecarrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean I can no longer spend 5 days downloading a poorly cracked game that I can't play online? That's a real shame.

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  2. Damn, I'm so out of touch. by FreeLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've never heard of any of these "well known" groups.

    1. Re:Damn, I'm so out of touch. by Rick.C · · Score: 4, Funny
      I've never heard of any of these "well known" groups.

      They were decoy goups set up by the crackers as honeypots to attract the FBI and observe its techniques.

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  3. Great news! by 7Ghent · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess this must mean that we've already solved all those pesky problems with rape, murder, assault and those other violent crimes, not to mention terrorism and the ongoing drug war, so now we can move onto things like busting 1337 W4R3Z D00DZ.

  4. Re:How is this YRO? by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because information wants to be free. Please report to the Slashdot reprogramming center.

  5. The Heroic Ashcroft by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, whether it is people selling pipes that might be used to smoke marijuana, or kiddiez running "FTP my w4r3z!!!!" sites, Ashcroft won't back down from a hard fight.

    Ashcroft doesn't dance, smoke or drink. I think he has too much time on his hands.

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  6. Now, that's comedy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Calling someone with a four digit Slashdot ID new.

  7. ugh by The+Other+White+Boy · · Score: 4, Funny

    i can't believe they could use the phrase 'international warez syndicates' with a straight face.

  8. Re:Call them "Evil Doers" next... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    we have to start using VPNs, boys!

    Christ most of those warez servers are slow enough as is...

  9. MY GOD by Sevn · · Score: 5, Funny

    It could take HOURS for new groups to deal with the hole created by the loss of these groups. The humanity.

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  10. Quake III by MrRuslan · · Score: 5, Funny

    CD key for WAREZ monkeys
    http://www.narvakitchens.com/quake3cdkey.jpg

  11. Re:Call them "Evil Doers" next... by Frizzle+Fry · · Score: 4, Funny
    You mean, serving the citizens of their countries

    So who is the United States serving? It can't be the citizens of its country, since the writeup indicates that the US no longer counts as a country: "enforcement from 10 countries and the United States...".
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  12. '10 countries and the United States'? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    > 10 countries and the United States
    I thought the United States counted as a country too.

  13. Re:I'm going to get moderated "Troll" again by SteakandcheeseUm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its probably that "Axis of Evil - (turbo remix) 4.mp3"
    Everyone has heard of that one.

  14. w/o Warez where would we be? by tweedlebait · · Score: 5, Funny



    10 year old geek (probably YOU):

    Mom, can I have $120,000 so I can
    learn autocad and 3d studio and
    visual basic and oracle and....?

    Mom: No that's too expensive dear

    How long before we can afford it?

    Mom: after we win the lottery maybe.

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  15. Re:Call them "Evil Doers" next... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exactly what's the limit on a FreeS/WAN box acting as an IPSec VPN concentrator?


    What do you mean? An African or European box?

    (Sorry, could't resist responding to the cadence of your question!)

  16. Re:Information wants to be by filmsmith · · Score: 4, Funny
    Because information wants to be free.


    Actually, information wants to be anthropomorphized.

    No, it doesn't.

    It hates that.

    fs
  17. Re:Song of the piracy apologist Repost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since we're reappropriating terms with long-standing meaning and context, why not warp the biggest and baddest one of them all, and just call it "content murder".

    "Intellectual Genocide"

    P2P IS THE ARTIST HOLOCAUST!