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US: Warez crackdown has only just begun
News Federal officials said new raids targeting Internet "warez" groups are in the works following the largest US crackdown on Internet piracy in history this week, including potential strikes outside the country.
[December 13, 2001, 10:44]
International crackdown scores warez victory
News The global effort specifically targets so-called "warez" groups, members of which are believed to distribute unauthorised copies of material to previously identified clientele over secure servers. The US Department of Justice has landed its first...
[December 29, 2004, 8:30]
Students nabbed in warez raids
News The late-November raid, a major setback for underground "warez" groups, came just days before a massive international crackdown spearheaded by the US Customs Office. That investigation -- described as the largest software piracy crackdown ever...
[December 21, 2001, 10:25]
International crackdown scores warez victory
Talkback For every warez group taken down, there are three ready to move into the old patch. I'm afraid this is a lost cause. Remove 20 servers, 20 servers/mirrors pop up .
[December 29, 2004, 16:52]
Has the warez battle been won?
News Early last week -- with the cooperation of the US Justice Department and international law-enforcement agencies -- the US Customs Service, the FBI and the US Department of Defense's Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) led simultaneous...
[December 20, 2001, 11:11]
Jail sentences for warez gang
News Members of a French group that sold illegally copied software were fined 40,000 euros and sentenced to prison terms of up to six months. The charges involved crimes dating back to 1996. Six French IT workers have been found guilty by a Parisian...
[February 18, 2002, 16:00]
New twist in fight against software piracy
News The warez 25 are not your typical pirates, however. Certainly the stereotypical warez pirate is a young white computer-literate male," admitted the BSA's Kruger. The Business Software Alliance has filed a civil suit in the Northern District of...
[November 18, 1999, 14:10]
Global piracy purge nets 200 PCs
News The operation specifically targeted "warez" groups, which allegedly disseminate pirated copies of computer software, games, movies and music on the Internet. Operation Fastlink is the latest in an ongoing campaign by law enforcement agencies around...
[April 23, 2004, 8:30]
Accused piracy leader pleads guilty
News Such software is known as "warez" -- a name for digital content whose copy protection has been cracked by skilled programmers. The FBI went as far as setting up a fake warez site to gather evidence against suspects.
[February 28, 2002, 9:38]
Feds hijack illicit sites
News David Rocci, 22, pleaded guilty in December to using his site to sell "mod" chips that let Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation owners modify their devices so they can use them to play illegally copied games, or "warez.
[February 27, 2003, 11:18]
Britney Spears wins 2000 search terms battle
News In addition to Napster and MP3 -- a standard technology and format for compressing music files from Web sites -- one of the most popular search terms on AltaVista was "Warez". Warez (pronounced "wares") is computer software stripped of copy...
[January 4, 2001, 8:54]
CIH virus to strike this Sunday
News The virus is known to have been downloaded from at least one "warez" site in Europe. According to the Virus Bulletin, CIH can be downloaded from "warez" sites on the Internet. The virus was first identified by Virus Bulletin, a premiere research...
[July 23, 1998, 9:01]
File-swapping service shutters on DoJ concerns
News Some mischievous hackers cite them as one of their favorite places to trade pirated software, or "warez". From what I understand, these free, hard drive services have been a major hub for the distribution of pirated software for 'Web warez' sites...
[January 23, 2001, 9:34]
IE flaws open back door to adware
Talkback Ever since my 11 year old son visited a 'warez' site we have been plagued with pop-ups. Nothing stops them. We've tried the lot - noadware - spybot S&D -ad-aware, whatever we do they just keep coming.
[December 31, 2004, 10:00]
McAfee Antivirus vulnerability published
Talkback Oy you could be smart and use a warez version, works well and you got a VIP support from them.well good luck mate
[May 4, 2005, 22:07]
Worldwide anti-piracy sweep nets three
News Most of its actions have targeted organised "warez" groups rather than individuals swapping music or movies on peer-to-peer networks, however. The US Department of Justice said on Tuesday three men pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement...
[March 9, 2005, 9:10]
Microsoft angered by game-code piracy
News Microsoft representatives confirmed that a pirated copy of "Halo 2" -- in the French language and the PAL video format used by European television sets -- began circulating on the Internet late on Wednesday via newsgroups and "warez" sites for...
[October 15, 2004, 12:25]
Software piracy case hits the Old Bailey
News DrinkorDie was an international alliance of software pirates, known as a warez network. Two UK citizens are appearing in court in London this week charged with illegally copying software worth several millions of pounds.
[October 20, 2004, 13:20]
Service Pack 2: Patching the unpatchable
Talkback I'm sorry all your friends raid the warez, porn, and "free" games sites and click 'yes' to every certificate popup. I couldn't even finish the article. This author is ridiculous. There are tons of freeware programs to remove this spyware.
[July 29, 2004, 14:55]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Talkback This article reads like a review of a warez product. It sickens me to see such blatant disregard of legal and moral standards, and for no demonstrable purpose at all. Ethically, it just blows my mind: What you have deigned to do is illegal, and for...
[November 11, 2005, 10:26]
