ESA Praises Sting of Game Software Pirates

Next Generation reports on the arrest of 19 software pirates in Chicago. The ESA sent along their congratulations to federal law enforcement officers, who took down the warez dealers as part of a task force titled 'Opereration Site Down'. From the article: "The international piracy warez group known as 'RISCISO' reportedly pirated $6.5 million worth of games, software and movies since it began operations in 1998. The group maintained several servers that contained 23,000 CD ROMs worth of pirated material, according to the ESA."

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Re:Cannot compute

[InsaneGeek]

Standard rule is printed collection of the Library of Congress is ~10TB
700mb * 23000 = 16.1TB
so it's approximately 1.61 times the Library of Congress

This ESA = Entertainment Software Association

[TorKlingberg]

This ESA is probably Entertainment Software Association.
Strange that the articles doesn't say, as most of us probably think of ESA as European Space Agency

Re:This ESA = Entertainment Software Association

[Midnight Thunder]

Yup, I was wondering what the European Space Agency was doing solving software piracy? I don't really think most people have much need for a pirated rocket flight control system.