Comments on: Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/ Torrent News, Torrent Sites and the latest Scoops Sat, 26 May 2012 09:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: rare.01 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-264994 rare.01 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:01:19 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-264994 I'm sure that software companies realise by copies of pirated software being handed out for free will only endorse their product by word of mouth and email etc.. to create more revenue. I know people cough cough that can not afford windows vista, office and other programmes that are main stream and are generally the base of many major companies. Tell me how can a poor man intersted in computers learn vista when its like $900. He has no chance in a world of corporate greed. And then to know he can go to jail for years just for trying to get his foot in the door of computers and technology is ridiculous and a real crime against humanity. Also would you really buy a product for that much iff you havent even tried a full version. What if the software is shit and you dont want it after using it only once? most softwares give you a trial that doesnt let you use the programme completely. Warez needs laws to empower all with the freedom to learn and use all software whether you are rich or poor just apply fair basic standards for warez so everyone can win. I know this message wont change anything I just think it a load of BS....... I’m sure that software companies realise by copies of pirated software being handed out for free will only endorse their product by word of mouth and email etc.. to create more revenue. I know people cough cough that can not afford windows vista, office and other programmes that are main stream and are generally the base of many major companies. Tell me how can a poor man intersted in computers learn vista when its like $900. He has no chance in a world of corporate greed. And then to know he can go to jail for years just for trying to get his foot in the door of computers and technology is ridiculous and a real crime against humanity. Also would you really buy a product for that much iff you havent even tried a full version. What if the software is shit and you dont want it after using it only once? most softwares give you a trial that doesnt let you use the programme completely.
Warez needs laws to empower all with the freedom to learn and use all software whether you are rich or poor just apply fair basic standards for warez so everyone can win.

I know this message wont change anything I just think it a load of BS…….

]]> By: Techo Zed Meuw » Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-202722 Techo Zed Meuw » Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:29:42 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-202722 [...] read more | digg story [...] [...] read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: fu rkj http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-197277 fu rkj Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:26:07 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-197277 [quote comment="58143"]Really, it is absolutely funny to read the combined ignorance or self deceptions here. All western countries(Europeans) benefit by Corporate greed and profiteering and so it is is charming to see young western europeans and americans crying over some silly australian goof. It is interesting just how much the little hero worshippers here "care" about rape and so on since they are in the group most likely to rape :) So suddenly people who could care less about anything else are SOOOO upset because Corporate america who hires your parents and feeds you everyday is trying to protect YOUR wealth... That is truly the highest form of Comedy... It appears that young Americans and Western Europeans lie to themselves at a rate only exceeded by their Corporate parents. Happy D/Ls[/quote] Oh yes, sorry, I forgot I work for the government, and that I most kindly asked them to 'protect my wealth' for me. Oh wait, I don't do either of those. [quote comment="58143"]Really, it is absolutely funny to read the combined ignorance or self deceptions here. All western countries(Europeans) benefit by Corporate greed and profiteering and so it is is charming to see
young western europeans and americans crying over some silly australian goof. It is interesting just how much the little hero worshippers here “care” about rape and so on since they are in the group most likely to rape :) So suddenly people who could care less about anything else are SOOOO upset because Corporate america who hires your parents and feeds you everyday is trying to protect YOUR wealth…

That is truly the highest form of Comedy… It appears that young Americans and Western Europeans lie
to themselves at a rate only exceeded by their Corporate parents.

Happy D/Ls[/quote]
Oh yes, sorry, I forgot I work for the government, and that I most kindly asked them to ‘protect my wealth’ for me. Oh wait, I don’t do either of those.

]]> By: Anthony http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-178951 Anthony Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:07:31 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-178951 This story is a load of lies for starters DOD distributed their own files & so called .coms or binaries never had to be registered until recently due to LAW thugs like above. BBS's existed all over the world before the internet & they were never regulated & neither did they had to be regisered like domain names today, also they were operated from peoples backyards not big corporate datawarehouses like today, for real if anything DOD had their intellectual property stolen from them illegally. This story is a load of lies for starters DOD distributed their own files & so called .coms or binaries never had to be registered until recently due to LAW thugs like above.

BBS’s existed all over the world before the internet & they were never regulated & neither did they had to be regisered like domain names today, also they were operated from peoples backyards not big corporate datawarehouses like today, for real if anything DOD had their intellectual property stolen from them illegally.

]]> By: كسر البرامج وأنواعها Ùˆ البرامج المقرصنة | « AΓD!ЯAZi » http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-140217 كسر البرامج وأنواعها Ùˆ البرامج المقرصنة | « AΓD!ЯAZi » Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:49:58 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-140217 [...] النص الأصلي هنا بالإنجليزيه الرجاء ممن يجيد الترجمه ترجمتها للفائØ... [...] [...] النص الأصلي هنا بالإنجليزيه الرجاء ممن يجيد الترجمه ترجمتها للفائ؅ [...]

]]> By: bongo http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-111399 bongo Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:59:03 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-111399 i remember this guy.. if anyone else does remember him from irc.oz.org and #pirates/#richc%nts let me know - bongo at mail.org i remember this guy.. if anyone else does remember him from irc.oz.org and #pirates/#richc%nts let me know – bongo at mail.org

]]> By: W00t http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-104991 W00t Sat, 26 May 2007 05:46:08 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-104991 Good on them! Fuck all you black fucks! Good on them! Fuck all you black fucks!

]]> By: Oscar http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-97634 Oscar Tue, 08 May 2007 00:24:55 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-97634 From a legal point of view it is a crime to distribute copyrighted software. But British/Australian guy commited this crime in Australia and he is under Australian juristiction. He should not have been exradited to US. I think instead of distributing copyrighted software we should join free software developers(free as in freedom)like www.GNU.org and help their efforts to produce free and quality software. And an advice to Americans, I know you think you own the world, but let me tell you this, What goes around comes around! it happened to many great empires. Just read history. From a legal point of view it is a crime to distribute copyrighted software. But British/Australian guy commited this crime in Australia and he is under Australian juristiction. He should not have been exradited to US.

I think instead of distributing copyrighted software we should join free software developers(free as in freedom)like http://www.GNU.org and help their efforts to produce free and quality software.

And an advice to Americans, I know you think you own the world, but let me tell you this, What goes around comes around! it happened to many great empires. Just read history.

]]> By: Extradited Warez Leader Pleads Guilty, Faces 10 Years in Prison | TorrentFreak http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-88112 Extradited Warez Leader Pleads Guilty, Faces 10 Years in Prison | TorrentFreak Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:51:20 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-88112 [...] Last February Griffiths was arraigned before a U.S. District Court to face charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of actual criminal copyright infringement. Yesterday U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg for the Eastern District of Virginia announced that Griffiths has agreed to plead guilty to both counts. Saved in: All, Hot Off The Press, P2P and Filesharing | Tagged with: bandito, dod, Raymond Griffiths, the scene, warez [...] [...] Last February Griffiths was arraigned before a U.S. District Court to face charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of actual criminal copyright infringement. Yesterday U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg for the Eastern District of Virginia announced that Griffiths has agreed to plead guilty to both counts. Saved in: All, Hot Off The Press, P2P and Filesharing | Tagged with: bandito, dod, Raymond Griffiths, the scene, warez [...]

]]> By: 2greedy http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-84267 2greedy Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:57:08 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-84267 Well that sux! I say good e'm for getting away with it for as long as they did! WAY TO GO GUY'S! Now carlco as to where are all the warez at now? well there's still shitloads of sites out there m8 and mine is 1 of e'm but i aint about to divulge their names here just for those bastards to go and bust them too! While there are poor ppl in the world there will allways be warez and illegal activity! So stick that in ya pipe and smoke ya lawful pricks! Well that sux! I say good e’m for getting away with it for as long as they did! WAY TO GO GUY’S!

Now carlco as to where are all the warez at now? well there’s still shitloads of sites out there m8 and mine is 1 of e’m but i aint about to divulge their names here just for those bastards to go and bust them too!
While there are poor ppl in the world there will allways be warez and illegal activity!
So stick that in ya pipe and smoke ya lawful pricks!

]]> By: carlco http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-74782 carlco Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:20:24 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-74782 [quote comment="74776"]omg-wotever. [/quote] [quote comment="74776"]omg-wotever.
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]]> By: carlco http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-74776 carlco Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:12:52 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-74776 so where all the warez @ now ? so where all the warez @ now ?

]]> By: r.k.j. http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-58143 r.k.j. Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:15:09 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-58143 Really, it is absolutely funny to read the combined ignorance or self deceptions here. All western countries(Europeans) benefit by Corporate greed and profiteering and so it is is charming to see young western europeans and americans crying over some silly australian goof. It is interesting just how much the little hero worshippers here "care" about rape and so on since they are in the group most likely to rape :) So suddenly people who could care less about anything else are SOOOO upset because Corporate america who hires your parents and feeds you everyday is trying to protect YOUR wealth... That is truly the highest form of Comedy... It appears that young Americans and Western Europeans lie to themselves at a rate only exceeded by their Corporate parents. Happy D/Ls Really, it is absolutely funny to read the combined ignorance or self deceptions here. All western countries(Europeans) benefit by Corporate greed and profiteering and so it is is charming to see
young western europeans and americans crying over some silly australian goof. It is interesting just how much the little hero worshippers here “care” about rape and so on since they are in the group most likely to rape :) So suddenly people who could care less about anything else are SOOOO upset because Corporate america who hires your parents and feeds you everyday is trying to protect YOUR wealth…

That is truly the highest form of Comedy… It appears that young Americans and Western Europeans lie
to themselves at a rate only exceeded by their Corporate parents.

Happy D/Ls

]]> By: justanobody http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-55403 justanobody Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:58:28 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-55403 I absolutely condone software and movie and go on then - music piracy. did I leave anything out? All forms of piracy except those bandits in the pacific and such like, is fine by me. Why? I am too tired to explain my argument. Probably because it is a weak one. I go with the stance that so many of the downloaded articles would never count as a lost sale as the people downloading them would not buy anyway. I mean, how many people actually use that latest version of adobe creative suite they downloaded or how many people in the less financially well off countries are going to go and buy a DVD when they can download a decent quality movie for free? Also when their main movie markets are still selling pirated VCD format movies everywhere anyway! I think that what these guys in release groups do, for people like me who could just never afford to get software, movies or much music, is great! I don't worship them though as a read of some nfo files shows you what a bunch of children you are dealing with...(some of them, not all). Anyway I hope these DOD get off but in USA it isn't looking too good for them already. Wrong country! I absolutely condone software and movie and go on then – music piracy.
did I leave anything out?
All forms of piracy except those bandits in the pacific and such like, is fine by me.
Why?
I am too tired to explain my argument. Probably because it is a weak one. I go with the stance that so many of the downloaded articles would never count as a lost sale as the people downloading them would not buy anyway. I mean, how many people actually use that latest version of adobe creative suite they downloaded or how many people in the less financially well off countries are going to go and buy a DVD when they can download a decent quality movie for free? Also when their main movie markets are still selling pirated VCD format movies everywhere anyway!
I think that what these guys in release groups do, for people like me who could just never afford to get software, movies or much music, is great!
I don’t worship them though as a read of some nfo files shows you what a bunch of children you are dealing with…(some of them, not all).
Anyway I hope these DOD get off but in USA it isn’t looking too good for them already. Wrong country!

]]> By: b-rad http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54721 b-rad Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:50:40 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54721 [quote comment="54038"]DOD, Razor1911 and RISC are the heroes I grew up with. I owe so much to you guys, F*ck the system, you improved the world by giving us hope that the megacorps don't have all the power yet. Just remember: One governments terrorist is another's freedom fighter.[/quote] I hear ya - all the people I knew in the scene were great people for most part - Bandido included who used to talk in our channel on a regular basis. Scary to think though - had I not retired from the scene when I did. [quote comment="54038"]DOD, Razor1911 and RISC are the heroes I grew up with. I owe so much to you guys, F*ck the system, you improved the world by giving us hope that the megacorps don’t have all the power yet.

Just remember: One governments terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.[/quote]

I hear ya – all the people I knew in the scene were great people for most part – Bandido included who used to talk in our channel on a regular basis. Scary to think though – had I not retired from the scene when I did.

]]> By: Peppay la pue http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54417 Peppay la pue Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:44:09 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54417 Fuck the fbi up their stupid clown shoes. There are gun runners and other motherfuckers running around killing people and they jail a software pirate for sticking games on the net for free. Boo fucking hoo, the millions the fat cunt company directors make out of churning out games - they need to be held to account for this shit, not the software pirates. Fuck the fbi up their stupid clown shoes. There are gun runners and other motherfuckers running around killing people and they jail a software pirate for sticking games on the net for free. Boo fucking hoo, the millions the fat cunt company directors make out of churning out games – they need to be held to account for this shit, not the software pirates.

]]> By: Mossa TheGreat http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54361 Mossa TheGreat Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:25:12 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54361 However, other content like FILM and such things... COME ON IDIOTS! If you like a film BUY IT, don't pirate that shit. Also games, buy them, if you like a game and think it owns, you should own it! But Software? I mean HELLO!!! However, other content like FILM and such things… COME ON IDIOTS! If you like a film BUY IT, don’t pirate that shit. Also games, buy them, if you like a game and think it owns, you should own it!

But Software? I mean HELLO!!!

]]> By: Mossa TheGreat http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54357 Mossa TheGreat Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:23:52 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54357 I am aiming to become a Developer, a Game Programmer to be exact. And you know... Piracy is a market by itself. It is a marketing market. If you want to be a good developer that earns what he REALLY deserve, you must adapt and understand this market exactly. Software companies shouldn't sue the pirates, rather make their software tell them what software is being used by who. I know this sounds like "spyware", but what I mean is this... Say you have a developer tool, or a presentation tool - PowerPoint. You should make it report to you if it is being used by commercial people or private. If I am Microsoft CEO or any other company, I would want to have the kids and the not-so-damn-rich people to know how to use my software, and know its name. That way, when they go commercial, which everyone does at some point, I can earn money from them. In licensing, etc. This case is ridiculous, and not really something... Get the man out of jail! I am aiming to become a Developer, a Game Programmer to be exact.

And you know… Piracy is a market by itself. It is a marketing market. If you want to be a good developer that earns what he REALLY deserve, you must adapt and understand this market exactly.

Software companies shouldn’t sue the pirates, rather make their software tell them what software is being used by who. I know this sounds like “spyware”, but what I mean is this…

Say you have a developer tool, or a presentation tool – PowerPoint.

You should make it report to you if it is being used by commercial people or private.

If I am Microsoft CEO or any other company, I would want to have the kids and the not-so-damn-rich people to know how to use my software, and know its name.

That way, when they go commercial, which everyone does at some point, I can earn money from them. In licensing, etc.

This case is ridiculous, and not really something… Get the man out of jail!

]]> By: Stef http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54206 Stef Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:59:21 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54206 how long before they discover this guy funded al qaeda free dod!!! how long before they discover this guy funded al qaeda

free dod!!!

]]> By: fdsfads http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54144 fdsfads Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:33:05 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54144 [quote comment="53662"]This makes me sick. This is one of those truly VICTIMLESS CRIMES that cause bloat in the US Judicial system, and force generally good people into jail terms stiffer than rapists and murderers. Its entirely possible to murder someone, or rob a bank, or commit some level of "terrorist" attack, and get off with a lighter sentence than guys like these, or that a-hole Kevin Mitnick got. Makes me ashamed to be an American.[/quote] [quote comment="53662"]This makes me sick. This is one of those truly VICTIMLESS CRIMES that cause bloat in the US Judicial system, and force generally good people into jail terms stiffer than rapists and murderers. Its entirely possible to murder someone, or rob a bank, or commit some level of “terrorist” attack, and get off with a lighter sentence than guys like these, or that a-hole Kevin Mitnick got. Makes me ashamed to be an American.[/quote]

]]> By: incredulus http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54127 incredulus Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:05:17 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54127 wow, aussie U.S. legal love-in. Australians are idiots for handing him over and the yanks are idiots for prosecuting him like this. What a miscarriage of justice. I hope they get to their senses and realize that the 3 years served is more, far more, than enough. wow, aussie U.S. legal love-in. Australians are idiots for handing him over and the yanks are idiots for prosecuting him like this.

What a miscarriage of justice. I hope they get to their senses and realize that the 3 years served is more, far more, than enough.

]]> By: Greg http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54059 Greg Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:50:21 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54059 This guy does not profit from his "crimes" yet Microsoft violated patents and is being forced to Pay $1.52 Billion in Patent Suit Damages. Yet none of those fuckers at microsoft go to jail for violating the law, they just write a big check. Somebody at M$ must have made the decision to violate the patents, so why isn't the guy going to jail? This guy does not profit from his “crimes” yet Microsoft violated patents and is being forced to Pay $1.52 Billion in Patent Suit Damages. Yet none of those fuckers at microsoft go to jail for violating the law, they just write a big check. Somebody at M$ must have made the decision to violate the patents, so why isn’t the guy going to jail?

]]> By: Warren Grant http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54046 Warren Grant Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:32:23 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54046 There is an answer to the problem of copyrighted software: Don't use it. For pretty much every need out there, there is an Open Source, freely available solution. Operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD etc, make using Windows illegally unnecessary. If no one uses the for-profit software, no one buys it, no one copies it and distributes it etc. These companies will lose money. Eventually they will go away. I am saddened to hear that another country has bent over and taken it from the USA and simply extradited one of its citizens to that backward hole of injustice. Far better that the accused serve any time in their own country. In the USA, the laws seem made to support the profits of the big corporations, not the rights of the individuals (or why wasn't SONY fined $1 Billion or so for their Rootkitting of millions of computer systems?). There is an answer to the problem of copyrighted software: Don’t use it. For pretty much every need out there, there is an Open Source, freely available solution. Operating systems such as Linux, FreeBSD etc, make using Windows illegally unnecessary. If no one uses the for-profit software, no one buys it, no one copies it and distributes it etc. These companies will lose money. Eventually they will go away.
I am saddened to hear that another country has bent over and taken it from the USA and simply extradited one of its citizens to that backward hole of injustice. Far better that the accused serve any time in their own country. In the USA, the laws seem made to support the profits of the big corporations, not the rights of the individuals (or why wasn’t SONY fined $1 Billion or so for their Rootkitting of millions of computer systems?).

]]> By: Niz http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54038 Niz Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:23:50 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54038 DOD, Razor1911 and RISC are the heroes I grew up with. I owe so much to you guys, F*ck the system, you improved the world by giving us hope that the megacorps don't have all the power yet. Just remember: One governments terrorist is another's freedom fighter. DOD, Razor1911 and RISC are the heroes I grew up with. I owe so much to you guys, F*ck the system, you improved the world by giving us hope that the megacorps don’t have all the power yet.

Just remember: One governments terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.

]]> By: dontstealmynames http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54037 dontstealmynames Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:23:18 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54037 i cant condone piracy, however i feel that the criminals should face punishment in their respective countries. i cant condone piracy, however i feel that the criminals should face punishment in their respective countries.

]]> By: The Poor http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54021 The Poor Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:15:56 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-54021 Yes, those rich bitched corporate America can make us pay all their stupid worthless fees to use their software... Yes, those rich bastards can suck our money from us... Personally, what's wrong if someone takes maybe a hundred copies from you for free??? Those rich bastards still have other few hundred thousand rich bastards that pay.... Personally, I don't support Warez, but they should take that into consideration... Wether they personally profited or not... Corporate America is way to bureaucratic Yes, those rich bitched corporate America can make us pay all their stupid worthless fees to use their software… Yes, those rich bastards can suck our money from us… Personally, what’s wrong if someone takes maybe a hundred copies from you for free??? Those rich bastards still have other few hundred thousand rich bastards that pay….

Personally, I don’t support Warez, but they should take that into consideration… Wether they personally profited or not…

Corporate America is way to bureaucratic

]]> By: disgusted aussie http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53931 disgusted aussie Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:22:24 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53931 Software piracy is a crime here in Australia too. he should have been charged here, not extradited to the USA. Just another example of the spineless Australian government bending over and taking it for Uncle Sam! Software piracy is a crime here in Australia too. he should have been charged here, not extradited to the USA.

Just another example of the spineless Australian government bending over and taking it for Uncle Sam!

]]> By: Shift Computer Solutions - Computer repairs and solutions in Brisbane, Australia http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53747 Shift Computer Solutions - Computer repairs and solutions in Brisbane, Australia Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:07:10 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53747 [...] Hew Griffiths is alleged to be one of the leaders of the pirate software group, with activities dating back to the Windows 95 days when the group managed to leak the new O/S 2 weeks before it was released to the public.read more | digg story [...] [...] Hew Griffiths is alleged to be one of the leaders of the pirate software group, with activities dating back to the Windows 95 days when the group managed to leak the new O/S 2 weeks before it was released to the public.read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: VanityKillz http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53744 VanityKillz Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:57:30 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53744 [quote comment="53585"]Its sickening to read about thie. To be extradited to another country for piracy, thats so utterly disturbing. Fuck 'em and their law[/quote] You seem to forget the crime was committed here. Where should they send him Denmark? [quote comment="53585"]Its sickening to read about thie.
To be extradited to another country for piracy, thats so utterly disturbing.

Fuck ‘em and their law[/quote]
You seem to forget the crime was committed here. Where should they send him Denmark?

]]> By: VanityKillz http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53740 VanityKillz Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:54:06 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53740 [quote comment="53660"]I hope those bitches rot in jail.[/quote] That's a pretty ignorant response. [quote comment="53660"]I hope those bitches rot in jail.[/quote]
That’s a pretty ignorant response.

]]> By: eppcot http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53719 eppcot Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:10:28 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53719 <i>the programmers of said software trying to make a living an almost impossible task because some stupid kids want to steal from them and give their software away for free.</i> You are an idiot. Programmers, while they aren't pulling down what they used to, still make a good living. COTS software only accounts for something like %2 of total programming work. Almost the entire software industry relies on CUSTOM work, even though the press only focuses on COTS stuff. The real wage pressure on programmers is from outsourcing. Programming is more vulnerable to outsourcing than anything except manufacturing. the programmers of said software trying to make a living an almost impossible task because some stupid kids want to steal from them and give their software away for free.

You are an idiot. Programmers, while they aren’t pulling down what they used to, still make a good living. COTS software only accounts for something like %2 of total programming work. Almost the entire software industry relies on CUSTOM work, even though the press only focuses on COTS stuff.

The real wage pressure on programmers is from outsourcing. Programming is more vulnerable to outsourcing than anything except manufacturing.

]]> By: anon http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53690 anon Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:00:05 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53690 <i>This is - BY FAR - not a victimless crime. Software publishers have to deal with BS like this on a daily basis, and it makes the programmers of said software trying to make a living an almost impossible task because some stupid kids want to steal from them and give their software away for free.</i> Oh boo hoo hoo. Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. Who's fault is it if his employee programmers struggle to make a living? This is – BY FAR – not a victimless crime. Software publishers have to deal with BS like this on a daily basis, and it makes the programmers of said software trying to make a living an almost impossible task because some stupid kids want to steal from them and give their software away for free.

Oh boo hoo hoo. Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. Who’s fault is it if his employee programmers struggle to make a living?

]]> By: Dildonose http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53679 Dildonose Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:24:47 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53679 It is victimless you fuckwit. Most people wouldnt buy the software if there was no other option. It is victimless you fuckwit.
Most people wouldnt buy the software if there was no other option.

]]> By: Fnord Fnarthat http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53667 Fnord Fnarthat Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:52:48 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53667 If you really think that DoD committed a "victimless crime", you need to take a really good, long look at yourself in the mirror, and get a reality check. This is - BY FAR - not a victimless crime. Software publishers have to deal with BS like this on a daily basis, and it makes the programmers of said software trying to make a living an almost impossible task because some stupid kids want to steal from them and give their software away for free. These people are trying to make a living. Idiots like DoD are simply glorifying in the fact that they're releasing their software to everyone else for free because they feel it should be free. Idiots. If you really think that DoD committed a “victimless crime”, you need to take a really good, long look at yourself in the mirror, and get a reality check.

This is – BY FAR – not a victimless crime. Software publishers have to deal with BS like this on a daily basis, and it makes the programmers of said software trying to make a living an almost impossible task because some stupid kids want to steal from them and give their software away for free.

These people are trying to make a living. Idiots like DoD are simply glorifying in the fact that they’re releasing their software to everyone else for free because they feel it should be free.

Idiots.

]]> By: Charlie Don't Serf! http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53662 Charlie Don't Serf! Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:39:52 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53662 This makes me sick. This is one of those truly VICTIMLESS CRIMES that cause bloat in the US Judicial system, and force generally good people into jail terms stiffer than rapists and murderers. Its entirely possible to murder someone, or rob a bank, or commit some level of "terrorist" attack, and get off with a lighter sentence than guys like these, or that a-hole Kevin Mitnick got. Makes me ashamed to be an American. This makes me sick. This is one of those truly VICTIMLESS CRIMES that cause bloat in the US Judicial system, and force generally good people into jail terms stiffer than rapists and murderers. Its entirely possible to murder someone, or rob a bank, or commit some level of “terrorist” attack, and get off with a lighter sentence than guys like these, or that a-hole Kevin Mitnick got. Makes me ashamed to be an American.

]]> By: United States of America http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53660 United States of America Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:38:16 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53660 I hope those bitches rot in jail. I hope those bitches rot in jail.

]]> By: losercrew.com » Blog Archive » Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53628 losercrew.com » Blog Archive » Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:39:16 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53628 [...] For more on this story goto http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/ News [...] [...] For more on this story goto http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/ News [...]

]]> By: zzerin http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53608 zzerin Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:59:00 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53608 Just disturbing ....I hope that they will not extradite him.... All the best to the DoD members hang in there guys.... Just disturbing ….I hope that they will not extradite him….
All the best to the DoD members hang in there guys….

]]> By: eric http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53607 eric Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:57:51 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53607 Good luck to them, and a really big fuck you to all those companies behind the arrests & the goverments working for them. These companies not only don't loose to piracy, they proffit enormouslly from the distribution/promotion & in from the 'complementary goods' qhich piracy generates the need for; eg. (raquet+ball / blueray burner+pirate p3 games). Good luck to them, and a really big fuck you to all those companies behind the arrests & the goverments working for them.

These companies not only don’t loose to piracy, they proffit enormouslly from the distribution/promotion & in from the ‘complementary goods’ qhich piracy generates the need for; eg. (raquet+ball / blueray burner+pirate p3 games).

]]> By: jsutevan http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53596 jsutevan Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:35:45 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53596 srew that! srew that!

]]> By: SixDays http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53585 SixDays Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:58:25 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53585 Its sickening to read about thie. To be extradited to another country for piracy, thats so utterly disturbing. Fuck 'em and their law Its sickening to read about thie.
To be extradited to another country for piracy, thats so utterly disturbing.

Fuck ‘em and their law

]]> By: us sucks http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53533 us sucks Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:20:27 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53533 I wish good luck to the DoD members! fught the power! I wish good luck to the DoD members! fught the power!

]]> By: In The Woods Of Eryn Vorn » Blog Archive » Former DOD leader goes to court http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53286 In The Woods Of Eryn Vorn » Blog Archive » Former DOD leader goes to court Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:54:41 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/warez-leader-faces-10-years-in-jail/#comment-53286 [...] Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail | TorrentFreak: Founded in Moscow in 1993, DrinkorDie (DoD) was a major underground warez network who, amongst many other achievements (including the release of their own DVD ripper) embarrassed Microsoft by pre-releasing Windows95 2 weeks before its official launch. DoD consisted mainly of university undergraduates and was heavily supported by employees of software houses, whose role would be to leak copies of software to the group. dod warez nfoConsidered by many to have reached their peak before the dawn of 1997, DoD remained firmly on the FBI's radar. In 2000, U.S. Immigration and Customs began their investigation into DOD and other warez networks such as RiSC, RAZOR1911, RiSCISO, Request To Send (RTS), ShadowRealm (SRM), WomenLoveWarez (WLW), and POPZ. In 2001 DoD was busted during US Customs co-ordinated raids as part of Operation Buccaneer. [...] [...] Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail | TorrentFreak: Founded in Moscow in 1993, DrinkorDie (DoD) was a major underground warez network who, amongst many other achievements (including the release of their own DVD ripper) embarrassed Microsoft by pre-releasing Windows95 2 weeks before its official launch. DoD consisted mainly of university undergraduates and was heavily supported by employees of software houses, whose role would be to leak copies of software to the group. dod warez nfoConsidered by many to have reached their peak before the dawn of 1997, DoD remained firmly on the FBI’s radar. In 2000, U.S. Immigration and Customs began their investigation into DOD and other warez networks such as RiSC, RAZOR1911, RiSCISO, Request To Send (RTS), ShadowRealm (SRM), WomenLoveWarez (WLW), and POPZ. In 2001 DoD was busted during US Customs co-ordinated raids as part of Operation Buccaneer. [...]

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