'Operation Site Down' Closes 8 Warez Servers

JerkyBoy writes "The Entertainment Software Association today hailed efforts on the part of 'U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice's Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section, U.S. Attorneys' offices nationwide, and participating foreign law enforcement officials' in the shutting down of at least 8 warez servers that specialized in the distribution of pirated games. With the code-name "Operation Site Down," close to 100 searches were conducted globally (U.S., Canada, Israel, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, and Australia) within a 24-hour period, resulting in the identification of 120 individuals who are likely to be pursued by the U.S. Department of Justice."

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Why not YRO?

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I'm actually surprised this isn't categorized as "Your Rights Online" -- seems like any time the awful federal government does anything to keep us from downloading anything we want any way we want, on behalf of the awful "rich," it's a constitutional rights violation, according to slashdot.

Nice to see something properly categorized.

In other news, "Operation Site Down"? They call THAT a code-name? Back in my day we had way better code-names. Like Desert Shield, which became Desert Storm once the bombs started falling. That wasn't bad. Then when we started fighting back after September 11th I knew there was only one code name for the job: "Operation Scorned Eagle" -- but they wimped out and called it "Enduring Freedom". Then the thing in Iraq took a page from the same playbook -- "Iraqi Freedom".

Man, they just took all the fun out of code names. I think they should have called this one "Lounging Caterpillar" or something. Not because it's descriptive (aren't they supposed to NOT be descriptive, since they're "code" names?), but because it's fun to come up with the names.

RP