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  • USA on tour II => Operation Site Down

    Operation Sitedown:
    http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2005/June/05_crm_353.htm

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2005
    http://WWW.USDOJ.GOV
    CRM
    (202) 514-2008
    TDD (202) 514-1888

    JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL
    INTERNET PIRACY SWEEP

    ?Operation Site Down? Attacks Organized Piracy Networks In 10 Countries

    WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Acting
    Assistant Attorney General John C. Richter of the Criminal Division and
    FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Louis M. Reigel today announced
    another far-reaching and aggressive international enforcement action
    against criminal organizations involved in the illegal online
    distribution of copyrighted material.

    Beginning yesterday morning, the FBI and law enforcement from 10 other
    countries conducted over 90 searches worldwide as part of ?Operation
    Site Down,? designed to disrupt and dismantle many of the leading
    criminal organizations that illegally distribute and trade in
    copyrighted software, movies, music, and games on the Internet.

    ?By dismantling these networks, the Department is striking at the top of
    the copyright piracy supply chain - a distribution chain that provides
    the vast majority of the illegal digital content now available online,?
    said Attorney General Gonzales. ?And by penetrating this illegal world
    of high-technology and intellectual property theft, we have shown that
    law enforcement can and will find - and we will prosecute - those who
    try to use the Internet to create piracy networks beyond the reach of
    law enforcement.?

    Operation Site Down is the culmination of three separate undercover
    investigations conducted by the FBI. In the past 24 hours, more than 70
    searches were executed in the United States, and more than 20 overseas.
    Four individuals were arrested in the United States, and searches and/or
    arrests occurred in the following 10 countries: Canada, Israel, France,
    Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal and
    Australia. At least eight major online distribution sites were
    dismantled, preventing tens of millions of further losses to the content
    industry. More than 120 leading members of the organized online piracy
    underground were identified by the investigation to date, and as the
    investigations continue, additional targets will be identified and pursued.

    ?The theft of this property strikes at the heart of America?s economy,?
    said FBI Assistant Director Louis M. Reigel. ?It deprives many Americans
    and others around the globe of their right to be paid for their labor
    and enjoy the value of their hard work.?

    In addition to attacking piracy globally, Operation Site Down struck at
    all facets of the illegal software, game, movie, and music trade online,
    which is commonly referred to as the "warez scene." The investigations
    focused on individuals and organizations that were the ?first-providers?
    of copyrighted works to the warez underground - the so-called ?release?
    groups that operated as the original sources for a majority of the
    pirated works distributed and downloaded via the Internet. Once a warez
    release group prepares a stolen work for distribution, the material is
    distributed in minutes to secure, top-level warez servers throughout the
    world. From there, within a matter of hours, the pirated works are
    distributed globally, filtering down to peer-to-peer and other public
    file sharing networks accessible to anyone with Internet access.

    The release groups targeted by Site Down specialize in the distribution
    of all types of pirated works including utility and application
    software, movies, music, and games. Among the warez groups hit yesterday
    are: RiSCISO, Myth, TDA, LND, Goodfellaz, Hoodlum, Vengeance, Centropy,
    Wasted Time, Paranoid, Corrupt, Gamerz, AdmitONE, Hellbound, KGS, BBX,
    KHG, NOX, NFR, CDZ, TUN, and BHP. These groups alone are allegedly
    responsible for stealing, cracking and distributing hundreds of
    well-known titles, such as Autodesk?s Autocad 2006, Adobe?s Photoshop,
    and the movies ?Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith? and ?Mr. and
    Mrs. Smith.? Operation Site Down is expected to dismantle many of these
    international warez syndicates and significantly disrupt the illicit
    operations of others.

    Conservative estimates of the value of pirated works seized in
    yesterday?s action exceed $50 million, which is only a fraction of the
    losses attributable to the online distribution hubs also seized in this
    operation. Top-level release groups like those targeted in the operation
    are primary suppliers to the for-profit criminal distribution networks
    that cost the copyright industry billions of dollars each year. Illegal
    warez copies of titles such as Autocad 2006 and ?Mr. and Mrs. Smith? 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.

    Operation Site Down comprises three separate FBI undercover
    investigations run by the FBI field divisions in Charlotte, North
    Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; and San Francisco, California. The U.S.
    Attorney?s Offices in San Francisco, Charlotte and Chicago assisted in
    the investigations and a majority of the domestic targets will be
    prosecuted in those districts. The Justice Department?s Computer Crime
    and Intellectual Property Section also assisted in the investigations
    and led the coordination of foreign enforcement actions in 10 countries.

    Operation Site Down is the latest in a series of actions taken by the
    Department of Justice to crack down on illegal online piracy. In the
    past four years, beginning with Operation Buccaneer in 2001 through
    Operation Fastlink in 2004, the Department has prosecuted a number of
    international investigations into these top piracy organizations.

    In March 2004, as part of the Administration?s Strategy Targeting
    Organized Piracy (STOP!) Initiative, the Department established the Task
    Force on Intellectual Property to address the increasing problem of
    intellectual property theft. The Task Force examined how the Department
    protects intellectual property through criminal, civil and antitrust
    enforcement, legislative proposals, international coordination, and
    prevention. A report issued by the Task Force in October 2004
    recommended comprehensive improvements in the Department?s overall
    efforts, many of which have already been implemented. One of those
    recommendations was to continue the Department?s strategy of dismantling
    and prosecuting multi-district and international criminal organizations
    that commit intellectual property crimes. Operation Site Down represents
    the Department?s continued effort to pursue this strategy.

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  • video game terror

    Nein! Ich bin Hörspiel-Fan und besitze um die 300 Hörspiel-CDs...!
    Wir meine Kinder kaufe ich Benjamin Blümchen und Bibi Blocksberg-Hörspiele und die höre ich wirklich nicht! Allerdings wäre es einen schwarzpädagogischen Versuch wert, den Kids Jason Dark zum Einschlafen vorzuspielen...!

  • video game terror

    Schade, dass man damals noch nicht so viel fotografiert und gefilmt hat...
    Wie der da mit seine "original Jason Dark signierten" Kreuz gestanden hat,...
    ... zu komisch! :hdbg:

    Dass ich als Heranwachsender schon so böse war...!