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Operation Fastlink Nets 1000s in Pirate Sting

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-times-for-file-sharing dept.

womanfiend writes "The Iowa City (Iowa) Press Citizen has been reporting the last two days about "'Operation Fastlink,' a multi-national investigation launched in April." Apparently, the investigation has netted a local college student hosting 13,000 titles worth a bundle of money both in simple value and liability for as many times as logs show the titles were downloaded. According to the P-C: "...'Operation Fastlink,' which targeted the underground community's hierarchy with [FBI] agents conducting more than 120 searches within 24 hours in 27 states and 11 foreign countries. At the time, authorities identified nearly 100 people as leaders or high-ranking members of international piracy groups." Sounds like somebody's in deep doo doo."

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  1. I'd reply to this by atarione · · Score: 5, Funny

    .... but I'm too busy formatting my HardDrives..Must destroy evidence.....mmmmm evidence

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    1. Re:I'd reply to this by saintp · · Score: 3, Funny

      Luckily, I know just the program.

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      Another one bites the dust
    2. Re:I'd reply to this by AviLazar · · Score: 3, Funny

      Residual data is pretty real. My friend works for a company that used to do data recovery (they have evolved to selling wholesale lockboxes to financial industry). Everything from formatted hard drives, to hard drives that were in a fire. There are plenty of articles on the web that discuss the different methods of recovering data from a formatted disk. Google it and you should find plenty of articles:

      Dawn of the Undead Data

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  2. And in other news... by suso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Copy protoction still fails to stop rampant software piracy.

  3. Don't copy... by Phixxr · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...That Floppy!

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    ungggghhhh
  4. Re:College kids? by krbvroc1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, before you know it, these little fuckers will be ripping the tags off their mattresses! Obviously, P2P is a gateway crime to bigger things.

    I once heard that Bernie Ebbers of Worldcom once shared a copyrighted VHS tape with his neighbors. If he had only been stopped then...

  5. Re:Call me when the headline reads: by TheGavster · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a sex dollar bill (not a typo ;)) with the face of Bill Clinton: http://www.books4you.addr.com/ClintonSexDollarBill .html

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