Ok i found this article at Gamespot, so i thought... just for all the warez people out there... better stop what ever your doing, not that i download anything illegal <_<. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Eight Charged in Game Piracy Crackdown This year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation launched "Operation Site Down," a global initiative against hackers who illegally acquire, copy, and distribute copyrighted music, movies, and games over the Web. Site Down investigators are concentrating on individuals that are the "first providers" of copyrighted works to the "warez underground." Late last month, FBI raids resulted in the arrests of four individuals in San Jose, California. Overall, Operation Site Down (and a similar initiative, Operation FastLink) has resulted in a total of more than 200 search warrants, which have been executed in 15 countries, the US Department of Justice said. Today, eight individuals arrested in Site Down raids were arraigned in a Charlotte, North Carolina, federal court. Each was charged with either criminal copyright infringement or conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. "Today's charges strike at the top of the copyright piracy supply chain--a technologically sophisticated, highly organized distribution network that provides most of the copyrighted software, movies, games, and music illegally distributed over the Internet," acting Assistant Attorney General John C. Richter said. "This FBI Charlotte undercover operation was successful in identifying and collecting evidence against those individuals who were the primary source of pirated digital material around the globe," a DOJ spokesperson said. Illegal copies of protected material moves quickly through a global network of duplicators and distributors, the DOJ said in a statement. "Software or movies are easily and cheaply converted to optical discs and distributed throughout the world from factories in Asia and elsewhere. Spammers regularly advertise cheap software that can be downloaded from websites or shipped from overseas, usually bearing the signature mark of the warez group that released it." Source - GameSpot
They will never be able to stop the flow of warez on the internet, they just seen to come from anywhere :blink:
Really? Wares will LIFE 4 eve?? Life should it not be live? and eve? Eve is a name and also a game. Should it not be Ever, or as some young people go for it as "Eva"??
people should stop whining about high prices of games, thats because of the warez! dont you see? (not that i dont warez tho)
Ha! you really don't have anything to fear. I mean, what are the chances that, if you do this stuff, you'll get caught. Almost Zero. No one really gives a damn whether you buy uor music or D/L it, It's the govenment just trying to make the industry happy.
they cant do jack , theres faaar to many sites with faaar to many people using it to stop it , they can damgae it , but i dont think stop it ,
I got caught...luckly it was by my isp and not the Feds lol...heres what happend...they shut down my internet so I called them and I was like "yo, wtf?!!?!" and the guy said...it looks like you have downloaded norton antivirus...and i was like "umm....ya...that not a crime is it?" and he said...we had to shut you down because you were sharing it....its not a crime to d/l but it is to share them...so he's like...just make sure you move your progs out of your shared folder...I did that and havent been hastled since.
