Three UK arrests in global piracy crackdown
News The operation specifically targeted an underground software piracy ring called Fairlight. In 2001, it took part in an operation against an alleged piracy ring known as "drink or die", which was suspected of pirating millions of pounds worth of...
[April 23, 2004, 12:45]
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. Internet piracy is a growing problem, with organised crime now moving into this space...
[May 6, 2005, 17:20]
Police smash £39m Italian piracy ring
News The Italian Internet piracy ring is known to have further links to organised networks in other countries within the EU. In particular, the BSA is currently working with police in the UK, Netherlands, Germany and Spain on similar large-scale...
[November 6, 2002, 17:04]
Swedish police claim major internet-piracy bust
News Swedish police on Friday reported making a major internet-piracy bust. The seized server contained 65TB of digital data, consisting of films, TV series, computer programs and the music equivalent of 16,000 movies, according to the Antipiracy Agency...
[March 10, 2009, 13:46]
Game companies blast pirates in new case
News In a major assault on game-software piracy, six video-game companies and an industry trade group have filed a federal racketeering lawsuit here against several alleged rings of software pirates. The alleged pirates were able to acquire...
[August 16, 1999, 16:25]
'Joost' aims to make the internet more like TV
News During the past year, Warner Bros.cut distribution deals with Guba, a little-known video-sharing site, and BitTorrent, a company that many consider synonymous with digital piracy. They chose Joost because they like the ring of it, according to a...
[January 16, 2007, 8:22]
P2P moves to the mobile space
News If there's any piracy going on, anywhere, the wireless operator can track you down," Holahan said. FoneShare, an application introduced two weeks ago by NewBay Software, does let people share their collections of ring tones, graphics, games, songs...
[November 4, 2004, 7:48]
DrinkorDie two convicted of software piracy
News Two men who were accused of taking part in a massive global software piracy ring were convicted at the High Court this week. Dowd and Bell were accused of supplying software for DrinkorDie, a worldwide gang that cracked hundreds of software...
[March 17, 2005, 15:10]
Software piracy case hits the Old Bailey
Talkback THE trial of a Newton man accused of playing a part in an international software piracy ring continued this week. Hundred, Essex, claimed that they had been set up by senior members of the 'Drink or Die' hackers group on Internet chatrooms.It is...
[November 13, 2004, 9:15]
Thousands under scrutiny as piracy ring shut down
News Beth Scott, vice president of EMEA at the Business Software Alliance, said: "This case proves the very real threat from increasingly sophisticated piracy gangs which use the Internet to market themselves.
[June 16, 2003, 14:45]
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. However, copyright owners maintain strong law-enforcement action discourages piracy.
[May 3, 2002, 10:54]
