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11-Nation Raid on Net Pirates
Cobb writes "The US Justice Department announce a global crack-down on large scale internet pirates distributing first run movies. According to the article: "FBI agents and investigators in the other nations conducted 90 searches starting Wednesday, arresting four people and shutting down at least eight major online distribution servers for pirated works, a Justice official said. Authorities also seized hundreds of computers in raids in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom.""
Similarly, http://www.torrentspy.com/ and http://www.isohunt.com/ are still operational. Not sure what countries those two sites are hosted from though.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2005/June/05_crm_353.h tm
More rumors on http://www.scene-busts.org/index2.html
Don't forget PacketNews.
Bin Laden didn't pirate Star Wars did he? What do you think the Department of Homeland Security is supposed to be doing? They can't be bothered with people like Bin Laden when the real threat is people downloading MP3's. Read down the article for DHS involvement info.
Myth and Centropy are old skool and HUGE.
as of 5/31 "Rumors have it that Centropy is going INTERNAL on all future releases"
Looks like too little, too late.
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No, we have a levy we pay on blank media. This levy is charged to consumers and supposedly distributed to artists. The idea is, we're downloading music, burning it to CDs. We pay a tax on the CDs and the artists collect that tax, everyone is happy. However, that levy is only for music. Its not for movies or other forms of media.
isohunts based in canada, whos also not on the list.
You jest, but actually China is stepping up efforts due to international pressure.
i believe what he wanted to say was child porn
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Who modded that up? isohunt.com is registered by a Canadian. However, the IP address (69.64.61.30) is registered to Server 4 You out of St. Louis. And Canada IS on the list.
This is a worthwhile venture for citizens tax dollars.
All the effort put forth, planning, execution. And they managed to get 4 really hardened criminals off the streets.
In an unrelated story, 700 elderly people died in the US today, from heat stroke after having their power turned off because they couldn't pay their bill.
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Like this?
-Banned any news reports of the terms of the deal. (Haha, internet beats ban, even 12 years ago.)
-Charged Bernardo (hubby)'s lawyer with possession of kiddie porn and obstruction of justice because he found the tapes after they couldn't. That charge got tossed at great expense to all concerned.
- Didn't cancel the deal when the tapes showed hermolesting another victim she'd "forgot to mention".
Bernardo insisted on a trial, despite being caught on tape, because he wanted to make sure the whole world knew that Homolka was as guilty or more so than he was. There's still some question who did the actual strangling of the two girls, but she supplied the tranquilizers which killed her sister.
your a foo, they aren't going after the torrent sites, they specifically went after the pirate groups that make the releases to begin with. If that somehow in your twisted mind isn't illegal, then I dunno what is!
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You're correct of course. But there is more emphasis on fines a source of revenue for the department.
u dget/operating/07_police.pdf
http://www.calgary.ca/docgallery/bu/finance/2005b
46m of revenue, 200m, that means fines account for 1/4 of their expendature... its the ONLY thing they have control over - and there has been a trend increase over the last 5 years when actually crime statistics have decreased
anyhow this is off topic
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LND est ~1995?, RiSC(ISO) est ~1995?, and Myth est 1998.
..i forget. Vengeance (VGN) was a couriering group as well.
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LND = Legends Never Die is a group that releases the ripped version of applications from CD's and DVD's (e.g. autocad, photoshop, etc). I guess they are dead now, but they may surprise the Feds yet.
RiSCISO = is the ISO division (or a group that releases the full unripped CD/DVD version of high end applications, e.g. autocad with all the plugins and documentation left intact) of Rise In Superior Couriering. Couriering is the competition of moving files as quickly as possible between sites frequented by other couriers.
Myth = this group releases ripped versions of games from the CD/DVD's without music, cut scene movies, and of course the annoying CD protection. This group was formed from what was Paradigm and some other group
Here's a picture of the guy and some more info: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/062905_nw_fed_bus
From what I understand the sites targeted were topsites, rather than p2p sites aimed at the masses.
For those who don't understand what the difference is a topsite is an ftp which receives a release from a group, from the top site it is distrubted to many other ftps and finally onto usenet and the p2p networks.
The sites at the top were targeted, not the sites that most people have access to.
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