ESA Praises Sting of Game Software Pirates

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 7, 2006 @02:37AM from the yer-goin-down-me-hearties dept.

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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I don't get it by BorgDrone · 2006-02-07 02:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I don't get it, why should the ESA care about software piracy, last time I checked they were building rockets, not selling software.

Or are we, by chance, talking about some other, obscure, ESA?