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Operation Fastlink Nets 1000s in Pirate Sting
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."
Sounds like somebody's in deep doo doo.
It is You! Oh ohh your in troble now. You better do a little better then format your drive.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
...formatting your HDs was actually destroying evidence.
-- Scientist: You aren't going to leave me here, are you? Boagh! Thump...
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/
Residual data is an urban legend. Don't believe the spook-show you read from the FBI/CIA.
Fill with 254. Filling with 0 or 1 may, on fast fills, leave the other bits. That's the origin of your residual effect.
If "residual effect" were real, why don't you see random r/w errors on a regular basis?
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Has software piracy become a right? Perhaps sometime when I wasn't looking?
Software copying became a right when pursuit of unlimited profits using taxpayer subsidized guido goons became a right.
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Software copying became a right when pursuit of unlimited profits using taxpayer subsidized guido goons became a right.
THEY ARE BREAKING THE LAW! LAW ENFORCEMENT GOES AFTER THEM!
WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE DEFENDING THEM?
I cannot understand this, if someone broke into your house, you would want them arrested and brought to justice... (or maybe you wouldn't, that would explain a lot actually)
Also, pursuit of unlimited profits IS a right. It's capitalism, the American way, providing jobs for millions of Americans by way of actors, cameramen, publicists, agents, script writers, gafferrs, electricians, carpenters, gardeners, car dealers, airline employees, swimming pool installers, restaurants, grocery stores, and many many more. The movie industry funds a lot of other industries, and perhaps you should take an economics class to learn about it.
It's not my law and it's my right to speak out agains the frivolous use of my taxpayer money to enforce the rights of the yuppie next door to his latest finger-painting. Screw him. His work sucks, his art sucks, and it's not worth my protection.
If you live in the United States it IS your law, and you are welcome to speak out against it, but do not say that we should not be going after people who break it. Write your congresscritter if you like, that is a better way to accomplish what you want.
Even if his art sucks it is still worth copyright protection, quality of work does not affect that.
You want to be a hard-nose? Fine. Copying is a right. It's called nature and nature existed long before capitalism.
Actually copying without paying (theft) is not a right. It says so right there in the US Code and does not mention anything about copying in the Constitution.
Has nothing to do with the DMCA or file-sharing. Artists existed long before any laws.
And this has to do with copyright violation how?
I learned about monopolies, cartels, and money-laundering. Perhaps you slept through those classes.
And the Government investigates and punishes monopolies, cartels and money-launderers. Again, I fail to see what this has to do with copying copywritten material.
There are plenty of indie movie studios out there, what's your point?