http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/2002...racy_dc_2.html

Sleep well...

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The only time you should start worrying about a soldier is when they stop bitchin'.

Yeah but the feds were going after a ring there, not individual users.

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How does this relate to the pirating of MoH:AA?

This is a story about the FBI cracking down on organized software piracy. They are continuing to take down a warez group that has participated in releasing less than 2% of all the warez released in the past year.

In fact, I doubt a single member of DoD has posted here on this forum., and if they did, they're not gonna mention who they are.

Yes they went after a ring, a ring that provided all sorts of pirated software.

The Customs Service estimates that the ring and other similar ``Warez'' groups are responsible for 95 percent of all pirated software online, causing at least $1 billion in lost sales annually.

I'm not saying those who downloaded MOHAA should be worried, but if they downloaded MOHAA they've downloaded other stuff as well...and they should be concerned if they don't know where they're downloading from...you don't think the feds are widening this investigation?

No not at all but what I'm saying is this ring seems like a major warez player, as opposed to individual users who may have downloaded the game. That would be akin to the DoJ storming into everyones house because their hard drive is full of mp3's. The point is they probably won't be coming for someone who isn't involved in an international software piracy ring http://www.alliedassault.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Graverobber:
No not at all but what I'm saying is this ring seems like a major warez player, as opposed to individual users who may have downloaded the game. That would be akin to the DoJ storming into everyones house because their hard drive is full of mp3's. The point is they probably won't be coming for someone who isn't involved in an international software piracy ring http://www.alliedassault.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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true...unless this ring was running servers with those computers...who knows. At least they put some sort of dent, as little as it may be.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Lt_Col_Tall:
Yes they went after a ring, a ring that provided all sorts of pirated software.

The Customs Service estimates that the ring and other similar ``Warez'' groups are responsible for 95 percent of all pirated software online, causing at least $1 billion in lost sales annually.

I'm not saying those who downloaded MOHAA should be worried, but if they downloaded MOHAA they've downloaded other stuff as well...and they should be concerned if they don't know where they're downloading from...you don't think the feds are widening this investigation?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, stupid kids that download warez off of warez websites. They can't bag the ppl that get warez from newsgroups and BBSs. Don't believe me? Look up what kind of data is on those types of servers.

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yeah a lot of the warez comes from newsgroups and off of irc channels too.

most warez 'kids' are grown adults. 'kids' dont have access to terabytes of storage behind a oc-48 pipe.

and warez is transmitted most through the use of irc (dcc transfers) and ftp (private file storage sites), as well as some public ftps.

The sites in which the FBI took down were almost all FTP sites, not WWW.

IRC is different though. The f-serves on IRC send a straight data stream. Newsgroups and BBSs encode the data in RAW ASCII. So basically, the data is jibberish until decoded by the person downloading it.

Yeah Hunda, the websites link to ftps.

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U guys know nothing about warez.. Newsgorups and fservers are lamer than you guys. No one is gonna stop piracy, not even your fbi friends. Another group will just take they're place. Welp, back to playing mohaa! lol!

*sigh* another one bites the dust (Uncleiso)

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Uncleiso:
U guys know nothing about warez.. Newsgorups and fservers are lamer than you guys. No one is gonna stop piracy, not even your fbi friends. Another group will just take they're place. Welp, back to playing mohaa! lol! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well that was an annoying interlude, shall we continue the converstaion?



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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by 1st Pvt.Cyber:
*sigh* another one bites the dust (Uncleiso)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Really ? Care to extrapolate on how that
will happen ?

This should be interesting ... (lol)

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SoLiDUS:
Really ? Care to extrapolate on how that
will happen ?

This should be interesting ... (lol)

[This message has been edited by SoLiDUS (edited January 14, 2002).]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

BWahahahah, im sorry, lol, that was tooo funny