Fed Raids Software Pirates in 27 Cities 1172
akiaki007 was among many who wrote in to say: "Check out this article on the New York Times (free reg, blah blah) site. The Feds have raided 27 cities in 21 states. Raid sites include MIT, UCLA, Purdue, Duke, UofO. Their main target was the group DrinkOrDie. 'This is a new frontier for crime,' Kenneth W. Dam, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said at a news briefing. 'The costs are enormous to both industry and consumers.' I better hide my burned Linux CD's. They might think it's some weird hacking tool."
Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Expensive schools.. (Score:4, Funny)
Right (Score:2, Funny)
More information is available at... (Score:5, Funny)
What the feds really wanted to say (Score:2, Funny)
This is not a sport, this is a crime," Mr. Bond said, adding that punishment could be "serious hard time" in prison.
What he really wanted to say was:
They're not going to some white collar resort prison. No, no, no! They're going to federal POUND ME IN THE ASS prison!"
Re:Just how far we've fallen... (Score:1, Funny)
Ummm Enviromental? (Score:4, Funny)
"Bandwidth, through the joint efforts of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General (EPA-OIG), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), supervised by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada, created a 'warez' site, controlled and monitored by the undercover operation, as a means of attracting predicated targets involved with the distribution of pirated software. "
I can see the FBI and the DoJ being involved in this operation, but why the hell was the enviromental protection agency have to do with this? The piracy of corprate software has nothing to do plants or air pollution.
I'm sure the EPA was actually secretly dissolved by the Bush administration and was replaced by a DoJ brute squad using the same name.
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Pirate Mentality (Score:4, Funny)
So I offered to burn him a copy of Slackware. "Why would I want it?" he said, "It's already free. Duh!"
Re:You would think... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:MIT is a haven for piracy (Score:2, Funny)
Re:THE Warez Group? (Score:0, Funny)
.ak.plt.
Re:Thats not the point. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Win95 (Score:3, Funny)
Serious? I never heard of such a thing: perfectly working copies of Windows! Where can I find some? Or are you pulling my leg?
Solomon
Re:Oh? So then they finished the terrorist problem (Score:2, Funny)
> What is the FBI so afraid of? Someone using Photoshop and Kai's power tools to distort the presidents face?
No, they're afraid of someone using Photoshop to make a picture with a stern looking Bert peering over his shoulder.
Where did all the Internet Traffic Go? (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/#graphs
Re:More information is available at... (Score:5, Funny)
1-2 terabytes is the street value.
Re:I was afraid of this (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot engages in massive copyright infringement every day - don't believe me? Go to SLASHDOT'S L33T WAREZ SECTION FOR GAMEZ AND APPZ [slashdot.org]
By the way, there are some programs that deserve to be pirated [cnet.com]
(for the humor impaired, warez.slashdot.org resolves to 127.0.0.1)
0-cost? (Score:1, Funny)
Don't you mean the 0-day model?
Piracy Hiaku (Score:2, Funny)
so says the S.B.A group
remember Linux is FREE
Copy that Floppy
Bill Gates needs no more money
think Blue Screen of Death
stealing this software
putting it up on Kazaa
FEDs talking to Mom!
M.I.T. and Duke
Homes to the Drink or Die Crew
How bout cracking books!
Leet Warez Kiddies rule!
I Have all the zero day wares
Never kissed a girl.