Warez Leader Is Chairman Of San Diego Republican Party
Written by enigmax on May 02, 2008This week, a 30 year old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his involvement in the so-called pirate ‘warez scene’. In what appears to be some sort of bizarre parallel universe, it’s been revealed that another notorious pirate has an interesting job – he’s chairman of the San Diego Republican Party.
Reading about the case of David M. Fish, this week almost seemed like an action reply of other similar cases of busts in the ‘warez scene‘. Operating between 2003 and 2005, Fish was found guilty of various copyright infringement offenses and was jailed for 30 months with a further three years on probation, which is pretty standard fare in these type of cases.
So imagine if you will, the amazing contrast between Mr Fish’s predicament and that of Tony Krvaric, chairman of the San Diego Republican Party. At first glance, they seem very different – but look closer.
To better appreciate the gap, here is some background on Tony Krvaric, courtesy of a Raw Story report and the Republican Party website:
Born and raised in Sweden, Tony Krvaric was inspired by President Ronald Reagan to come to America. Though only a youth, he vowed to one day become an American and pursue his American Dream. The first step was to start his own business, and in 1992 when the opportunity presented itself, he moved to San Diego.
After becoming a naturalized citizen in June of 2003, he decided to become politically involved. Having seen, first hand, the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden and the rest of Europe, he was determined to stand up for the traditional, conservative values that helped make America great.
So what does a politician have to do with warez? Well, the strange truth is that Tony Krvaric is none other than a co-founder of notorious warez group, Fairlight. Krvaric -who started his cracking career at the “West Coast Crackers”- was in fact one of the most well-known individuals in the Warez scene at the time. Fairlight remained active after Krvaric left in 1993, and several members of the group were eventually arrested by the FBI in 2004.
During Fairlight’s earlier days and their involvement in the Commodore 64 cracking and demo scene, although cautious, the members couldn’t have imagined the punishments that are given out today. Although Krvaric isn’t shy in letting the world know some of his history and present-day situation on the C-64 Scene Database;
Presently works as a full-service financial consultant for individuals and families who share his values – helping them grow, preserve and distribute their wealth. He lives in San Diego with his wife and four children. Is a member of the Republican Party.
The excellent article goes on to list other alleged infringements by Krvaric over the years, and although he appeared to leave Fairlight in 1992, there are suggestions that he was still in charge of the group as late as 2004. It’s not possible to say if this is true or not, but according to sources, the group appeared to be operational in late 2007.
Apparently, Krvaric has now sent an email out to fellow Republicans, trying to calm the waters:
Apparently there’s a hit piece floating around on me, “exposing” my wild high school, teenage years where I was in a computer club where we swapped Commodore 64 games (similar to how kids swap mp3 music files these days). This was in the 80’s, on a computer that’s long since defunct!
[In] 1990 I graduated high school, grew up and started my own business, and then in 1992 I came to this country, continuing the same business (selling computer and video game chips and accessories as well as some nonperishable foodstuffs, taking over my father’s business for a while after he died in 1994) until I left that field when the profit margins became too thin to make any money , around 1997 or so. That’s when I became a financial consultant, which I remain to this day.
I’m sure glad they didn’t look in to my elementary school years, as there’s some really embarrassing stuff that I did in 4th grade. BTW, I also heard a rumor that another fellow committee member (who shall remain unnamed) once made a tape copy of his friend’s favorite vinyl record.
I don’t know who is spreading this but just wanted to let you know what’s going on out there. Likely it’s someone who wants us to take our eye off the ball in 2008, be it the democrats, labor or someone else. Either way, we’re not going to let them get away with it. Thanks for your leadership.
I wonder which way the newly-convicted copyright infringer David Fish would vote – if he was allowed to? Speaking of voting, Krvaric – running for reelection in 2008 – registered his email address with the Registrar of Voters. No-one can accuse him of trying to hide anything, that’s for sure:
tkrvaric@fairlight.com
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Ouch that hurts….
Oh God!! I am literally laughing my ass off….
XD
I lol’ed
… “the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden”… Right. What a retard.
Quite a brilliant situation we have here. It’s news like this that makes me smile. (Along with random letters claiming any shortcomings of someone must be exaggerations of an opposing party.)
wicked
lmao, Bush his little padawan I guess :D
theres a mistake in the article enigmax, you repeat the same thing twice but the second time its in a little box.
lol .. of all people.. Strider! Wonder if JBM will run as Chairman for UNESCO’s Copyright Board… Or if Bacchus will get that Managing Director spot at Ifpi.
[quote]the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden and the rest of Europe[/quote]
Swedes are so devastated, they don’t have to go without healthcare like the how many million Americans? :D
Thank God he managed to escaped Sweden. Ooh, it was like the hell on earth in late 80’s.
He was either pursued by the Swedish government for his outrageous commodore skills, or threatened by a gang of blood thirsting socialists or right wings (cause they’re pretty lefty too).
Haha I get it. He was putting on a joke.
“the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden” meant ABBA!
lol
Sooo, do we big this guy up or diss him?
I’m confused.
just another sellout. nothing new. but ppl dont like them. do they?
most sites when faced with news that ISNT THEIRS, makes a few-sentence post and then link you to said story. NOT HERE, no you’d rather write a bunch of poor grammar introductions to near full-pastes of other’s articles. GREAT WORK GUYS
Krvaric. Krvarić.
More likely a refuge from balkan wars that got a swedish passport.
Maybe he’s an undercover TPB operative looking to infiltrate the US Government to takes over all your base. :)
Aaaahhh The Commodore 64… those were the days.. lol Fairlight was like my heroes back then, I had so many games coming from them :D
Fairlight were always fail compared to paradox.
“the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden and the rest of Europe”
Ridiculous -.-’ that’s why whole Europe over time chose to be socialist and be always on top contrary to America.
Ask China about socialism… they won’t complain.
[quote comment="368994"]most sites when faced with news that ISNT THEIRS, makes a few-sentence post and then link you to said story. NOT HERE, no you’d rather write a bunch of poor grammar introductions to near full-pastes of other’s articles. GREAT WORK GUYS[/quote]
Agreed. In fact there isn’t even any evidence posted that links this dude as being Strider, other than a link to rawstory.com that just says “an investigation revealed…”
This is a flimsy article written for shock value based on questionable data. Really disappointing…
[quote comment="368955"]Haha I get it. He was putting on a joke.
“the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden” meant ABBA!
lol[/quote]
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This seems to be one of those examples where conservative believes shaped a world that is too tight to live in. Even for conservatives.
How twisted can a world be where you do exactly the opposite during the night of what you advocate during the day? Is he the republican “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”? Or is he just a normal case of schizophrenia? Or maybe the conservative interpretation of “The Human Condition”?
what a hypocrite and typical republican aka NWO supporters aka nazi sympathizers
Might also want to check the follow-up story:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/San_Diego_GOP_chairman_Part_2_0430.html
It has a photo of someone who looks VERY much like this guy, taken from an archive of fairlight.com
Hmmm, what a coincidence?
Oh look, a smoking gun…
A news release that it looks like that this guy produced, or at least had a hand in, hosted on the former warez hq fairlight.com…
http://www.fairlight.com/files/CityAttorneySurveyPressRelease041408.pdf
Nice one!
I noticed he blocked the IA Archiver with robots.txt, but the all seeing of eyes of Google are powerful.
Here’s an article about the company that Tony refers to as his american dream opportunity:
http://www.robohara.com/tech/?p=15
:)
I`m going to vote for him ;)
http://www.SceneNotice.com
yo dey be hecklin deez sweedz
so lets put on some prayer beedz
Too bad he got outed and his political career likely destroyed. He would have made a great director of FBI or DOJ Computer Crime/Intellectual Property Division. :)
I do not fault him for being in the warez scene, only for denying that he was involved in it. From the looks of it he cracked quite a few C64 games, and he deserves respect for doing so. As for being a Republican, bah, who cares, people change. Even in his cracking days, his motto was, and I quote, “Kill a commie for your mommy,” so he was always a bit right-wing. Funny thing is filesharing is by its nature a bit anti-capitalist.
P.S. wtf is with the “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.” messages. My first comment in ages.
Warez scene was not for profit. Nowhere do I see any mention of BLUE BOXING, CALLING CARDS and such things these guys used. Not collecting $ from pay sites.
If all was done for fun yes.. but these guys did it for profit. Thats whats fucked up to deny this. It can all be recovered from records.
Unfortinately they think the real life is WAREZ SCENE. Its not! Someone is out for TK and its sad. He got away with warez lamers who worshipped him but IRL, it does not work the same.
No mention of GASTON?
I am from San Diego and this is a big shock lol
BITROAD UPLOADED [FAST] downloadable games!!!!!!!!!!!
http://beaclan.com/showthread.php?t=1
OK I admit it I’m really Boris Johnson and I’ve made a warez site for London (http://www.Dargens.com) . All politians are pirates. So connect to friends download from everyone, Dargens F2F P2P Try it.
To share is natural it is IP that is agains nature.
That reminds me of the good ole days.
Re 24 (Mr. X):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_Law
The republicans are nearly identical to the democrats anyway. They’re both very right wing.
…but in today’s world, you self proclaimed do-gooders find nothing wrong is stealing 1000s of MP3s…
odd double standard here….
democrats are simply young republicans that don’t have money
Well, thanks for all the great releases Tony. I even sometimes fire up my Amiga just to watch or listen to the Fairlight cracktros :P
I guess there are a lot more politicians (in)active on the scene. Many working against the system they are developing at work.
that’s not strider..
you can see strider on slengpung..
http://www.slengpung.com/?id=2787&eventid=111
better one here: http://www.slengpung.com/?id=390
“Having seen, first hand, the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden.” Yeah, ranking 6th in the HDI ranking, it must have been torture.
“The first step was to start his own business, and in 1992 when the opportunity presented itself, he moved to San Diego.”
“Having seen, first hand, the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden and…”
LMAO the irony is killing me. Fact is, the swedish government back then was run by a coalition of right-wing parties that managed to actually run the country into economic devastation.
“The devestating effects [sic] in Sweden…”
ROFL.
Swedes get health care, paid maternity and paternity leave, excellent unemployment insurance, broadly distributed wealth, low unemployment, vigorous economic competition, etc. Are we back in 3rd grade and it’s opposite day? This guy is a loon.
Mild mannered republican stoogie by day, super-skillz hacker by night! Infiltrates the republicans to one day gain power and turn the pirate party in control of America!
Man this guy should have a comic book :D
what an incredibly smug, borderline sociopathic picture. no doubt he’s still every bit the whatever-i-can-get-hands-on type he was oh so very long ago, except now he’s wrapped himself in the party colors of the thief. hope he’s enjoying the email flood today.
To be fair, copyright IS socialism, motivated by “helping the poor starving artists” [who presumably couldn't compete in a fair free market devoid of copyright monopoly grants ?!]
Copyright devalues everyone’s physical property – “you might own the book, but you can’t do what you want with it, because the intangible pseudoproperty of copyright now trumps basic physical property rights in our grand corporate-socialist system”.
[quote] To be fair, copyright IS socialism, motivated by “helping the poor starving artists” [who presumably couldn't compete in a fair free market devoid of copyright monopoly grants ?!]
Copyright devalues everyone’s physical property – “you might own the book, but you can’t do what you want with it, because the intangible pseudoproperty of copyright now trumps basic physical property rights in our grand corporate-socialist system”.
[/quote]
Copyright is not socialism at all. It does not help the starving artist, it helps multinational corporations. It is a new type of property, intellectual property, and people try to force it over old fashioned possession where you buy a CD and own it.
A damn shame he’s a Repube.
C-64 4ever!!!!
yey, legends never die!
I hope someone will take the time to read through all the meaningless comments to this point.
I will not say that I know much about the relations between the warez group fairlight and the demos cene group with the same name, but I would not think that they are the same group today. It would seem more reasonable that the demo group fairlight owns the domain fairlight.com then that the warez group fairlight owns it (and with the point that the warez group today seems defunct)
If I was tasked with writing a transparent piece of media chaff of lesser inventiveness, I assure you all, I would fail. If you read this and the shadow of uncertainty grips you… you will never be lonely because one of you is born every minute. You can do better than that and easily.
“Having seen, first hand, the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden and the rest of Europe, he was determined to stand up for the traditional, conservative values that helped make America great.”
This guy is either proving that “core” sceners are dumbasses, that conservative Swedes are dumber than Swedes in general (sorry guys, I’m Norwegian, that *had* to be said ;) ), or that the Reps believes that the general public is blind and retarded.
Whatever the case is, writing the above was really hard. I laughed so hard I almost shook the keyboard to pieces.
I live in san diego and will definatlly be voting for him
I don’t agree with his political views, but I do think that the RAW article was an obvious case of the biased author (a democratic politician in San Diego) throwing feces at the other party.
Also, people seem to look past the fact that the 100+ cracks listed on CSDB were technically not illegal at the time, as there were no laws preventing “private” software piracy (i.e. the cracked games being traded without money involved) in Sweden at the time.
“This guy is either proving that “core” sceners are dumbasses, that conservative Swedes are dumber than Swedes in general (sorry guys, I’m Norwegian, that *had* to be said ;) ), or that the Reps believes that the general public is blind and retarded.”
And you are retarded for believing that “conservative” in a Swedish context is the same as “conservative” in a US context.
BS….they know nothing
[quote comment="372252"]“This guy is either proving that “core” sceners are dumbasses, that conservative Swedes are dumber than Swedes in general (sorry guys, I’m Norwegian, that *had* to be said ;) ), or that the Reps believes that the general public is blind and retarded.”
And you are retarded for believing that “conservative” in a Swedish context is the same as “conservative” in a US context.[/quote]
That’s true, but he’s a member of the republican party in the US, not in Sweden. Conservatives in the USA are a lot more right wing in the US than in Sweden. So that means he’s an extreme right winger!
He also says: “Having seen, first hand, the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden and the rest of Europe”
Is that a fucking joke? But at the same time he’s a cracker and a swapper!?
Sharing is socialism at it best!
So fuck you Tony!
hhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/krvaric/1752282827/
http://www.fedbar.org/dc.html
Silvio Krvaric who was “Aaron of Fairlight” is now the President of the Washington D.C. -Federal Bar Association. Look at the pictures with the Judges and Federal District Attorney.
This is looking really weird.
Just google aaron and fairlight.
http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=aaron+fairlight&btnG=Google+Search
23 – why do you think that states with the highest percentage of welfare recipients are the same ones that Reagan bonded to the Republican Party on a message of hatred towards welfare?
That email address is legendary.
soon all sweeden will be arabic anyhow, so i dont see what they are so proud off. dont diss usa, look at ur own hole and what is going on with it
in the 80’s he cracked stuff on computer systems.
in the 00’s he does the same, only his target has changed.
now stryder cracks capitalism.
join the republican party to get into the system and do some ‘financial counselling’.
f00king brilliant!
[quote comment="368925"][quote]the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden and the rest of Europe[/quote]
Swedes are so devastated, they don’t have to go without healthcare like the how many million Americans? :D[/quote]
I’m sure if Americans consented to the taxation swedes do we could have pretty much anything. We don’t.
” Born and raised in Sweden, Tony Krvaric was inspired by President Ronald Reagan to come to America. Though only a youth, he vowed to one day become an American and pursue his American Dream. The first step was to start his own business, and in 1992 when the opportunity presented itself, he moved to San Diego.
After becoming a naturalized citizen in June of 2003, he decided to become politically involved. Having seen, first hand, the devastating effects of socialism in Sweden and the rest of Europe, he was determined to stand up for the traditional, conservative values that helped make America great. ”
Yes, the devastating effects of free health care and free education compared to conservative values like bombing brown people. Funny enough he ends up in jail with others who share those same values… mmm, irony, tastes just like freedom!
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It kinda amazes me that all of you are bashing this guy rather than praising him, and all because of his political views. Seriously? If he really was part of the scene shouldn’t we be supporting him? I mean seriously wtf is wrong with you idiots. I thought that communities like this were based off a common ground of piracy, yet here we see that the social divide comes directly from political affiliation. Why? That’s f***in retarded. If it was a dem or libertarian would you be saying the same thing? Not trying to start a flame fest, but I just don’t get it.
Tony for Congress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is planning to run, that is for sure!!!
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