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Operation FastLink Yields Three Arrests

Posted by timothy on from the book-'em-danno dept.

Doomrat writes "As promised (see previous story), Operation FastLink has led to the arrests of 3 key members of the Fairlight group. NHTCU officers and local police executed search warrants and arrested three men at separate locations in Sheffield, Manchester and Belfast. Over 200 computers have been seized, along with 100 CD copiers. Raids were carried out in the UK, the U.S., Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Singapore and Sweden."

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  1. Israel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I guess Israel police have no more important task than busting warez kiddies. Thei are biggest threat to Isreal citizens right now.

  2. Re:Copying games is worse than rape by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No. Any woman can squeal out rape after she consents to having sex with a man if she feels like she made a mistake. And the thing is, she usually wins because she's supposedly a poor defenseless woman. The man get gypped.

  3. Re:Copying games is worse than rape by ColdZero · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    After reading that post, I kinda wish that you got raped in the ass while you had a short stay in prison. Maybe you would think twice before making such a stupid comment such as, "those raped in jail deserve it."

    So if I steal some game, I should be raped in the ass. I see how the punishment fits the crime.

    I would think that rapists, murders, terrorists and child molesters would be a better definition of "the scum of the earth" than a software pirate.

  4. Re:I wish... by nelsonal · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The only Enron employees who lost their pension deserved what they got, unless they were a recent hire or in some way restricted from trading in their 401k. The only way they lost their pension was if it was entirely in Enron stock. While it's not a good idea to keep all your investments in a single stock, it is a terrible idea to keep it all in the stock of the company you work for (as you will lose both your job and the value of the stock if the company has trouble). Those people either didn't pay any attention to their retirement money or were greedy to get more of the run up that had taken place over the few years prior to the bankruptcy. I doubt even energy or gas funds lost more than 10%-20% of their value when Enron went bankrupt, broader funds likely lost less than 1%.

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  5. GPL'ed software by bonch · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I guess the only way to get Slashdotters to care about preventing piracy would be if somehow things were flipped and this story was about raids on GPL copyright violations.

    Copyright infringement would suddenly become a really big issue around here, wouldn't it...