Registered: Mar 2001
Location: London
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Just got this from a few "friends" who are a part ofthis scene as well as myself.

Very interesting read.

http://phlow.digimagix.org/scenebusts.htm

Looks like a lot less WaReZ will be going around on the net now

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Look at this face, do you think it gives a shite?!? Nah didn't think it would...

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Wetaskiwin AB, Canada
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Long live government bastards.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: aggressivly happy
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someone allways spoils the fun

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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OH NO! THEY'RE ACTUALLY ENFORCING PIRACY LAWS AND ARRESTING THIEFS! WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TOO!?!?!

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: California
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The tactic is fear. The coordinated raids were just for show.
They obviously know they can't stop Warez so they are trying to push it underground.

When it is out of the public eye it will look like they did their job and they will go bug someone else.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Upstate NY
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Well its a shame

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Registered: Jul 2000
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Shame indeed.

damn these naysayers that pay for their software, but undoubtedly download their mp3s with no qualms

bwahahahahhaahh!!!!!!!

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Cambridge
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Originally posted by MstrG


Is it? Or are you referring to the shame of those who would choose to steal the intellectual property of someone rather than pay for it?

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Originally posted by AlcoholSoopaFiend
Shame indeed.

damn these naysayers that pay for their software, but undoubtedly download their mp3s with no qualms

bwahahahahhaahh!!!!!!!

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Gee, didn't fiend just say that Caff?

Mp3s are not illegal. And you certainly haven't seen law enforcement going after MP3 owners, or seen the RIAA using their Napster-acquired user lists (with IPs?) doing it either.

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Location: Cambridge
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im not gonna get all high and mighty and claim all my software is legally licensed (or music for that matter), but it's hardly a shame that people who break the law are punished for it.

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Originally posted by Caffeine

...punished you for breaking the many laws you do.
(Referring to the illegal software, not the child pr0n)

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Gee, didn't fiend just say that Caff?

Mp3s are not illegal. And you certainly haven't seen law enforcement going after MP3 owners, or seen the RIAA using their Napster-acquired user lists (with IPs?) doing it either.

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Ok, I'm ready for this argument if you are

Or are you referring to the shame of those who would choose to steal the intellectual property of someone rather than pay for it?
Is what I was referring to. Just because fiend said something, doesn't mean I can't direct my own opinion towards someone.

I never said you were going to be arrested for breaking any laws, which you probably are. It would not be profitable for the RIAA to do that, would it?
Gee, are you claiming, G, that you never stole the intellectual property of someone (an artist maybe) rather than pay for it? (buy the CD)

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Child porn is illegal now?

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: 54.60°N 5.70°W
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*cough*

Why, d1n0, I had no idea we have among us a "member" of the hacking/cracking "fraternity" who has "friends" in high "places".

I had you figured for just another "geek" with all the usual limitations.

(Although, yes, forgive me. I should have guessed from your ultra1337 "moniker".)

Can I be on that übercool mailing list, too? Do I have to pass a "test"?

Oh, go on. Don't be such a cunt about it.

Please?

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you would sing a different tune if they punished you for breaking the many laws you do.

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gets used to it.
It happens every 3-5 years.
big hype for a few weeks, then it's back to piracy as normal.
The FBI cuts off one head, and the pirating monster just grows another one.

About this time I start forgetting how to use a mouse.
You tell anyone different and I'll call ya liar.

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Is it? Or are you referring to the shame of those who would choose to steal the intellectual property of someone rather than pay for it?

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