Slashdot Mirror


Operation Fastlink Cracks Down on Warez

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."

6 of 1,052 comments (clear)

  1. Re:No Russia? by the+MaD+HuNGaRIaN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Russia, the crack gets YOU!

  2. Re:You are an idiot! by Serapth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ahhhh... one of you people... let me guess, have a dictionary sitting beside your toilet to amuse yourself? Slashdot has the biggest population of grammar facists I have ever seen... but really should that shock me? :) Funny part is, you should have made fun of the fact I mispelled syndicate when I quoted it...

    Regardless... there is the dictionary definition of a word... and there is the popular context that is taken in. Fag has more then one meaning, but what do 95% of North Americans think when they hear it... ditto for the word syndicate.

    So put down your dictionary and thesarus, and I dunno... get a life?

  3. Re:Class by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    None of which changes the fact that PETA = ELF = ALF = The country's biggest domestic terror network.

    Just remember your abortion clinic analogy when you guys fuck up and burn down a building that has workers napping inside. 'Cause then someone gets to put a bullet in a girl protesting the circus and *you* won't be able to say jack about it.

    I'm all for the ethical treatment of animals and the land, but you PETA kids can collectively suck my ass.

  4. Re:Call them "Evil Doers" next... by Linux+Is+For+Fagz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah trying to take down the piracy world is like trying to re-form Iraqs government. They think by doing these invasion on some members of these orinizations are going to make a dent in the piracy they are wrong. It would take years and billions of dollars that they don't have to bring us down! Keep trying, It was a good effort!

    eatings not cheating....

  5. Re:w/o Warez where would we be? by torokun · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Then what is it when you copy a $100 dollar bill?

    I guess it's ok because everyone else still has theirs. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

  6. Re:Song of the piracy apologist Repost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's terribly sad that we're so pedantic that we admit to a crime, we're just angry people tell us it's "illegal" instead of "unlawful".

    Boy, oh boy.