DrinkorDie Head Sentenced For Software Piracy
News An Australian resident who headed the notorious DrinkorDie software piracy gang has been jailed in the US. According to the US Department of Justice, Griffiths headed the DrinkorDie software pirate group, founded in 1993 under his alias "Bandido".
[June 25, 2007, 12:27]
Clink For DrinkorDie Software Counterfeiters
News Eight men (six Britons and two Ukrainians) from the piracy ring, dubbed DrinkorDie, were initially arrested - some of whom worked in the IT industry, police said. The NHTCU said that DrinkorDie members broke copyright protection on software and...
[May 6, 2005, 17:20]
DrinkorDie Two Convicted Of Software Piracy
News Dowd and Bell were accused of supplying software for DrinkorDie, a worldwide gang that cracked hundreds of software applications and made them freely available over the Internet. The High Court heard that DrinkorDie operated a sophisticated system...
[March 17, 2005, 15:10]
US Attempt To Extradite 'DrinkorDie Pirate' Blocked
News If extradited and convicted of his alleged role in leading the DrinkorDie group, Griffiths would face up to 10 years in prison and $500,000 (£280,000) in fines. The ruling could be a significant setback for US prosecutors, who have invested...
[March 26, 2004, 7:05]
Clink For DrinkorDie Software Counterfeiters
Talkback Shouldn't the problem of software piracy be handled at a more scrutinised level.it's roots. Well this wide-spread phenomena known as "Software Piracy" seems to be eating the effots of software companies who tend to over charge for thier products .
[May 9, 2005, 18:04]
Clink For DrinkorDie Software Counterfeiters
Talkback Whilst not arguing that certain software is seriously overpriced, music and software piracy hits at the roots of our basic the freedoms and ultimately harms all decent citizens as a result. Consequently, I believe that all people/organisations...
[June 8, 2005, 22:52]
Software Makers Ignoring Anti-piracy Technology In Favour Of Sales
News In the aftermath of the conviction of four members of the DrinkorDie gang for conspiracy to defraud, security experts have hit out at software companies for not putting enough effort into protection methods.
[May 12, 2005, 17:45]
Software Engineer Sentenced To Prison
News A former security software engineer convicted of providing technology to a piracy group known as DrinkOrDie was sentenced Thursday to nearly three years in prison. US attorneys said Erickson, who was an engineer at Symantec and a member of...
[May 3, 2002, 10:54]
Accused Piracy Leader Pleads Guilty
News The accused leader of an Internet piracy group known as DrinkOrDie could face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. Prosecutors said Sankus ran the daily operations of...
[February 28, 2002, 9:38]
Defending Their Copyright With Your Taxes
News Peter Sommer, a security specialist called as an expert witness for the defence in the DrinkorDie case, claims the group should never have been prosecuted under charges of conspiracy. The gang members, collectively known as DrinkorDie, who were...
[May 12, 2005, 12:45]
'Operation Buccaneer' Nabs Suspected Pirate Ringleader
News A federal grand jury in Connecticut charged Hew Raymond Griffiths of Bateau Bay, Australia, with one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of copyright infringement related to his alleged role in leading the...
[March 13, 2003, 8:27]
US Fights To Extradite Internet 'pirate'
News Townsden told ZDNet Australia that Griffiths was the only alleged member of the software piracy group DrinkorDie whose extradition was being sought. According to the office of the US attorney, the group DrinkorDie illegally copied and distributed...
[July 8, 2004, 9:45]
US: Warez Crackdown Has Only Just Begun
News Members of the DrinkOrDie group included corporate executives, computer network administrators and students at major US universities who regularly uploaded copy-protected software and digital media to be broken by other members of the group.
[December 13, 2001, 10:44]
Software Piracy Case Hits The Old Bailey
News Steven Dowd, 39, of Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, and Alex Bell, 29, of Chafford Hundred, Essex, are both accused of being members of DrinkorDie, a group of software pirates that cracked many hundreds of commercial programs.
[October 20, 2004, 13:20]
Learning Lessons From Open Source
Leader In such an environment, should we really be surprised that groups such as DrinkorDie - who were jailed for a total of six years on Friday - find a market for their cracked software? DrinkorDie's practices cannot be condoned, but they do highlight...
[May 9, 2005, 13:40]
Police: New Laws Won't Tackle Cybercrime
Talkback N Inner London Crown Court, 2003-4 - he was picked up during the investigations into the DrinkorDie warez group, rapidly eliminated as being part of that conspiracy but then charged with downloading child abuse pictures from the Internet - he...
[April 4, 2005, 11:52]
Students Nabbed In Warez Raids
News That investigation -- described as the largest software piracy crackdown ever -- targeted a warez group known as DrinkOrDie and resulted in the seizure of more than 130 computers worldwide between 10 December 10 and 12 December.
[December 21, 2001, 10:25]
Global Piracy Purge Nets 200 PCs
News In 2001, the Justice Department and foreign agencies conducted a two-day raid that seized computers from a group named "DrinkOrDie. The US Department of Justice said on Thursday that it had conducted an international sweep of suspected online...
[April 23, 2004, 8:30]
Has The Warez Battle Been Won?
News The US Customs Service, the US Justice Department and law enforcement from the United Kingdom, Australia, Finland and Norway seized more than 130 computers worldwide between 10 December and 12 December as part of the first overt enforcement action...
[December 20, 2001, 11:11]
