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FBI Cracks Down on Software Piracy(转贴)
no game and appz download anymore
FBI Cracks Down on Software Piracy
By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal agents seized computers in 27 U.S. cities Tuesday morning to gain evidence against hackers in an international software piracy ring.
Police in five countries also served warrants against people accused of stealing software, U.S. Customs Service officials said. They alleged the people targeted in the raids stole and distributed all types of media, including Microsoft Windows operating systems, computer games and high-quality copies of new movies like ``Harry Potter (news - web sites)'' and ``Monsters, Inc.''
``This is not a sport,'' Commerce undersecretary Phil Bond said. ``This is a serious crime. These people should do some hard time.''
The raids, dubbed ``Operation Buccaneer,'' were directed at 62 people in Australia, Finland, England, Norway and the United States. The agents said they have leads in 20 other countries.
While no one has been arrested yet in the United States, officials said police in England have five people in custody. Some in the United States are cooperating with police, agents said.
They include corporate executives, employees and students of major universities like Duke and Purdue, technology company employees and some government workers, the agents said. They alleged that some of the most critical members are insiders who steal products from their own companies and hand it over to the pirates.
``Our targets are not your stereotypical teenage hacker,'' Customs assistant commissioner John Varrone said.
All will face federal copyright infringement charges, officials said.
Investigators served 56 search warrants and expect to grab about 130 computers.
Customs agent Allan Doody said each computer has between one to two terabytes of stolen software. A terabyte is equal to a thousand gigabytes. A printed directory on just one computer would span 4,200 pages.
The software industry says it loses an estimated $12 billion per year due to piracy.
``Software piracy undermines the stability of the burgeoning e-commerce industry and it is a direct threat to innovative companies that help strengthen the U.S. economy,'' Deputy Treasury Secretary Kenneth Dam said.
In Operation Buccaneer, officials targeted one of the oldest pirate rings - known as ``warez'' groups - called ``DrinkOrDie.'' Founded in Moscow in 1993, DrinkOrDie became famous among software hackers for claiming it released a copy of Microsoft Windows 95 two weeks before Microsoft began selling it.
``They are a notorious elite Internet pirate organization,'' said Bob Kruger of the Business Software Alliance, an industry trade group. ``I doubt there's much that's out there that people want that (DrinkOrDie) can't provide.''
DrinkOrDie now has two leaders, one in the United States and another in Australia, officials said. There are 1500 warez members nationwide, officials estimate, and eight to 10 major groups.
``Our strategy in the investigation was to disrupt the warez community as a whole by targeting (DrinkOrDie),'' Doody said.
The agents didn't identify any of the members by their real names, but revealed some of the codenames - like ``Dezzy'' and ``Hackrat'' - that they use on the Internet.
Doody called ``ForceKill,'' one of the alleged members of DrinkOrDie, ``one of the premier software crackers in the world.''
While officials said the hackers typically don't make money from their efforts, others sell CD-ROMs filled with the pirated programs.
Officials said the seized computers contained all types of software, from high-end animation and modeling software that sells for over $10,000 each to all types of movies. Doody said one computer held more than 5,000 individual movie titles.
The highly organized process of eliminating copy-protection schemes, compressing and distributing software takes no more than three days to complete with most products.
``There is currently nothing that the software industry as done in terms of copy protecting their programs that has not been defeated by DrinkOrDie,'' Doody said.
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On the Net: U.S. Customs Service: http://www.customs.ustreas.gov
Business Software Alliance: http://www.bsa.org
Fbi全球性打击warez
DoD组织的大部分人都被逮捕了,Class,Razor1911,Ricsiso,wlwiso等组织的会员也部分被逮捕,部分被通缉,2个Topsite的管理人员被逮捕,数十个大学内的Topsite被查获,全球topsite几乎90%以上都在昨晚关闭了,对会员的警告是重新格式化你的硬盘,并覆盖三层数据上去
这次的行动和以往不同,美国法院已经发布了通告,不但支援者,线路提供者,CRACK者,连传输者与包装者写NFO的人全部要追求责任,irc上的管理员大都
已经失踪,所有的频道几乎都变为邀请模式,不再公开甚至密码也不再使用
如果FBI真的是全球性打击,而中国刚刚加入WTO...可能连国内也要......
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/De.../01_crm_643.htm
美国法院的通告
mrzed (UCF, myth), heckler, zielin, wizy (risciso, til), sui (tfl/wlw), hackrat (wlw/razor/dod, california), shark (wlw/razor/dod; RatzHole siteop), thraxis (not busted; but raided -- 700 cds and computer; risc, pgc, dod), maverick (from skidrow, not from omega), sony, bandido (razor, dod, risc council), eriflleh (dod council, philadelphia), bigrar (dod, risc, boston), avec (rts, rise, former DOD council, razor), buj (dod, Durham North Carolina), forcekill (dod), radsl (dod, oregon), chevelle (dallas), billyjoe (austin), ievil (razor, an ircop), bcre8tive UNCONFIRMED(razor, risc), fb manchester (fireblade nicked; siteop and hardware guy), brianna (founder of WLW, lived with avec), superiso (inferno; got raided) busted
被逮捕与通缉的部分人名单
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