The U.S. Department of Justice has announced actions taken in eleven nations as part of the FBI's covert "Operation Site Down". The infiltration of so-called 'Topsites' resulted in searches, arrests, and seizures in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and Great Britain in addition to the United States.
Messages in response posted on a communications page for warez users read:
- RiSCISO, Myth, TDA, LND, Goodfellaz, Hoodlum, Vengeance,
Centropy, Wasted Time, Paranoid, Corrupt, Gamerz, AdmitONE, Hellbound,
KGS, BBX, KHG, NOX, NFR, CDZ, TUN, and BHP were all hit, and were all
hit hard.
- EdN not pre'ing for awhile, investigations still going on!
An email lists people targeted, updated in Mountain Time (UTC-7) at 6:31pm, 6:36pm, 6:38pm. The last update is at 6:41pm.
The FBI began the sting in 2003, offering hosting for software
cracks and movies. As the covert site infiltrated the underground warez
and piracy community, it was repeatedly expanded to provide storage for
an increasingly large collection of pirated material. Eventually it
held some 27 terabytes of copyrighted files, including 188 copyrighted
softwares valued at more than US$300,000.
In the U.S.A. William Venya, 34, of Chatworth, Calif., Chirayu
Patel, 23, of Fremont, Calif., Nate Lovell, 22, of Boulder, Colo., and
David Fish, 24, of Watertown, Conn were all arrested on criminal
complaints of copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit copyright
infringement.
Source: Wikinews
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Personaly, i think it is unfair that one person should have to pay for something, when another does not - it's quite simply stealing.
However, this is not the problem that most commercial bodys have with this issue, it is that THEY are loosing out on hard earned money. Which in its own right, its fair enough.
"Subversiveness clouds the clearest of minds"