"Operation Fastlink"

[McNevin]

Operation Fastlink, c'mon who makes these names up.

Feds target warez in "Operation Fastlink"

According to IGN Insider, the US Deptartment of Justice engaged in a wide scale sting called "Operation Fastlink". The operation spanned 27 states and 10 countries targeting computers used for storage and distribution of music, movies, and thousands more copyrighted materials. The sting specifically targeted "warez" groups which distribute illegal games, movies and software to select clients. 200 computers were seized during the operation.

[McNevin]

* INDIVIDUALS FROM Belfast, Manchester and Sheffield were arrested on suspicion of piracy. The BSA alleged they belong to a group called Fairlight, and reported that offensive weapons, counterfeit driving licence, copiers, computers and credit cards were seized as part of the investigation.

[spidermonkey]

operation penetrode

[Megatron]

Operation SAUSAGE LINK !!!

[Goemon]

offensive weapons

"Offensive"? Did they posess dildo-Jesus-shaped uzis?

[R3C]

... Some of the demo-scene sites reported it. They said "Hope the Fairlight boys get out of jail soon."

That sucks...

Oh well, I buy most of my software these days anyway.

[McNevin]

Among the groups targeted by Operation Fastlink are well-known organizations such as Fairlight, Kalisto, Echelon, Class and Project X, all of which specialized in pirating computer games, and music release groups such as APC. The enforcement action announced today is expected to dismantle many of these international warez syndicates and significantly impact the illicit operations of others.

[Megatron]

wow APC is huge.

[R3C]

... should pool their resources and hack the computers and networks of all the parties that "brought them to justice"

[R3C]

... the One Eyed Willy Revolt!!!

[Bill Drayton Jr.]

I wonder if this will confuse the general public to the point that if you are part of any kind of a computer group, such as one that writes demos, then you are bad?

Obviously anyone that is part of Fairlight is going to be be in an UnFairLight...hehe

[spidermonkey]

I don't know that much about computers other than.. other than the one we got at my house. My mom put a couple games on it and I play them.

[R3C]

... computer...

I wonder when our benevolent president will declare that the piracy of video games and music is an act of terrorism.

[Bill Drayton Jr.]

because humans are fucking stupid....how many times must I say this...what are you a stupid human?

[R3C]

... just the "authorities" are. I think they should worry a bit more about murder, rape, war, and other disgusting things first. Then when they are all done with that, they can start looking for shitty excuses to piss people off.

[enderzero]

J3RK - that last post is bordering on political. a-hem ... The government is most concerned about financial matters, be them war, the state of the economy, or even copyright violations. The warez scene has apparently become a big enough profit detractor and the feds are riding the wave created by the FIAA and MPAA (who if they aren't feds themselves are real buddy buddy with the boys in black). Blame Fraunhoffer and blame Shawn Fanning and blame bandwidth. If music and movie downloads had never made there way to the mainstream we would still be enjoying our pir8ed games in relative peace, enjoying the inter-group slanders and accusations in the nfos instead of reading about pleas to "Free CoolPHat!"

You gotta think though, I am sure the feds know about places like nfonews. That must make their work so much easier.

[McNevin]

Speaking of a "Fast Link" check this out...

NetBSD Sets Internet2 Land Speed World Record

"Researchers of the Swedish University Network (SUNET) have beaten the Internet2 Land Speed Record using two Dell 2650 machines with single 2GHz CPUs running NetBSD 2.0 Beta. SUNET has transferred around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes, using a single IPv4 TCP stream, between a host at the Luleå University of Technology and a host connected to a Sprint PoP in San Jose, CA, USA. The achieved speed was 69.073 Petabit-meters/second. According to the research team, NetBSD was chosen 'due to the scalability of the TCP code.'"

[enderzero]

By my calculations that equals:

477.866 MB/sec
3.733 Gb/sec

AKA fast enough.

[McNevin]

Where can i get some of that.

I saw another article the other day that said students were getting caught using the internet2 for p2p.

lucky bastards.

[R3C]

... They should all have cheap slip accounts outside the school's domain, range, so it looks like someone's hacking in and using their accounts to do naughty things. They could dial out through a normal phone line, and then do huge transfers, offload the data to external storage devices. Or something like that anyway. They're students, they should have all kinds of trickery...

[McNevin]

Wow slip... forgot about that thing...

Rember TIA? That might of been the single most important piece of software we had at the time.

I think that was my first experience with a keygen? or was it just cracked?

[R3C]

... registered to someone else, and then spread around.