Top warez groups get busted by FBI and local police

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BobCobb

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or should we just make a flaming forum for everyone who can't handle discussions?

This might not be a bad idea. A small offshoot of OT, where there are no censors and no rules. A bit of anarchy to keep the ****storms off of regular OT.
 

Kantham

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BobCobb said:
This might not be a bad idea. A small offshoot of OT, where there are no censors and no rules. A bit of anarchy to keep the ****storms off of regular OT.

Yeah, a place where you can post porn and warez.
 

MÆST

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It is actually a good idea. Another forum I frequent has a section called the Trash Bin. No (well very few) posts and threads are outright deleted or locked. Instead moderators move them to the Trash Bin where they die a slow death. Topics can also be started in the Trash Bin if a user knows that they'll end up there anyway.
 
Dark Pulse said:
Porn and Warez will still be actively modded.

Assuming we ever do create such a forum.

I know that won't EVER happen. The way mods get all freaky about warez posts and porn.

I like the trash bin thou. Just a place to toss all the crappy threads at. Like this one. After it has been moved to the Trash Bin, it has a 2 week open, then it closes automaticly...to let it go away.
 

KillStreak

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killstreak that is an awful attempt at getting someone to help you find warez. :y5:



go go internet morality police, toot toot!

well at least im trying.
 

Zenny

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I'm pretty surprised that another bust happened so quickly after the last one. I remember reading some commentary about the last MPAA scene bust and a lot of the scene members were saying that this was nothing more then the "yearly token bust to make it seem to the public that the digital theft police were actually doing something" It looks like law enforcement has now acquired the skills to actively pursue digital theft.
 

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Or just got lucky twice, or are using the new surviellence powers that Bush has authorised to find these groups without having to wait for the courts... There are many possibilities left available before I would concider spreading a rumour such as 'theyre getting smarter'. Such a statement is clearly liable. :p
 

Zenny

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The only way I see luck really having an effect on this second raid is if they found a lead in the first raid that led them to this one; that might have been the case, I don't know.

Because I don't see the CIA / FBI / USA mentioned at all in this article and believe that these raids took place completely in Europe / not America, I'm going to go ahead and assume that the raids were not at all a product of Bush and his all-seeing eye, but I could very well be wrong, it just seems unlikely. This thinking comes from the fact that I'm not seeing this report on any of the major American news outlets.