♠ How the Shadow Internet works!

Science & Technology Information Technology, Gaming, Machines, Gadgets
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**They start with a single stolen file and pump out bootleg games and movies by the millions. Inside the pirate networks that are terrorizing the entertainment business.

** Call it trickle-down file-sharing. The goods - a game, movie, song, or other piece of copyrighted media fall into an insider’s hands. Then it’s only a matter of hours before a drop becomes a tidal wave.

- Erik Malinowski

1. THE INSIDER
Industry and theater employees run their own straight-to-video operations. Hackers looking for prerelease videogames target company servers. And before that long-awaited CD hits Amazon.com, moles inside disc-stamping plants have already got a copy.

2. THE PACKAGER
The pirated goods are passed on to a release group. These groups take multi-gigabyte movie files and squeeze them down for easy online trading.

3. THE DISTRIBUTOR
Release groups are known to have exclusive relationships with certain so-called topsites. These are the highly secretive sites at the top of the distribution pyramid. When a topsite operator drops a file, the avalanche begins.

4. THE COURIERS
Alerted by release groups, worker bees spring into action, copying and transferring files from the topsites to lower-level dump sites, and then from there to P2P networks like Kazaa and Morpheus. For the couriers, the payoff is props from their peers and credits redeemable for goods on upper levels of the pyramid.

5. THE PUBLIC
After the file is copied thousands of times the P2P networks saturate, allowing casual file-traders easy access to the newest movies, music, and videogames.

A very interesting, 4 page read in the Wired e-zine.

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stopped doing these 5 things in 98 when noticed internet usage was exceeding 90 gigs a month from ONE out of 4 machines in the house.. :hehe:

#3 is most challenging though :slight_smile:

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So where do you stand 5abi? :rotato:

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#5 man .. ALWAYS #5 :wink:

:rotato:

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:>

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^-- Don’t tell me you’re a distributor :smack:

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neither :>
faizy is right, #5 it is :D

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We’re all only #5 eh :bummer:

:smiley:

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Gizzy yup most of us are #5 and dont want to incriminate ourselves :clown:

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no more party for you guys :stuck_out_tongue: ph33r teh gormint

Feds Target Internet Piracy Organizations

By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – The government announced Thursday an 11-nation crackdown on Internet piracy organizations responsible for stealing copies of the latest “Star Wars” film and other movies, games and software programs worth at least $50 million.

FBI agents and investigators in the other nations conducted 90 searches, starting Wednesday, arresting four people, seizing hundreds of computers and shutting down at least eight major online distribution servers for pirated works.

The Justice Department “is striking at the top of the copyright piracy supply chain – a distribution chain that provides the vast majority of illegal digital content now available online,” Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said.

Called Operation Site Down, the crackdown involved undercover FBI operations run out of Chicago, San Francisco and Charlotte, N.C., and included help from authorities in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

Those arrested were Chirayu Patel, 23, of Fremont, Calif.; David Fish, 24, of Watertown, Conn.; Nate Lovell, 22, of Boulder, Colo.; and William Veyna, 34, of Chatworth, Calif. The four were charged with violating federal copyright protection laws. All are alleged to be members of “warez” groups, a kind of underground Internet co-op that is set up to trade in copyrighted materials.

Warez (pronounced “wares”) groups are extraordinarily difficult to infiltrate because users talk only in encrypted chat rooms, their computer servers require passwords and many are located overseas.

The FBI set up its own servers and lured warez members to store pirated material on them, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in San Francisco.

The investigations targeted “release groups,” the original sources of pirated works that can be distributed worldwide in hours. Among the warez groups targeted are RiSCISO, Myth, TDA, LND, Goodfellaz, Hoodlum, Vengeance, Centropy, Wasted Time, Paranoid, Corrupt, Gamerz, AdmitONE, Hellbound, KGS, BBX, KHG, NOX, NFR, CDZ, TUN and BHP.

Those groups are believed responsible for stealing and distributing copyrighted works, including “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” Autodesk’s Autocad 2006 and Adobe’s Photoshop software.

The bootlegged software often is made available to popular file-sharing networks, where it can be easily downloaded for free, said Michael DuBose, a Justice lawyer who prosecutes cyber crimes. But mass producers of pirated materials in Asia and elsewhere also use warez groups as suppliers, DuBose said.

Studies of Internet piracy have estimated losses to the movie industry alone at $3.5 billion to $5.4 billion annually.

President Bush signed a new law last month setting tough penalties of up to 10 years in prison for anyone caught distributing a movie or song before its commercial release.

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the scene will always go on :) Where a few fall many more always rise.

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though i admit that i'd downloaded warez etc but i am strongly in the support of tougher piracy laws and punishments specially for software. moives can go to hell !! all i care about is software, it's so damn ****ing hard to write a useful software program and it hits you right in the heart to see your work and "khoon paseena" going for free!!

if you want some thing for free, go fu-knig buy a compiler and write it for yourself.

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LOL @ "khoon paseena" -- you mean copying open source code from sourceforge and stamping your name on it and selling it in Pakistan ;)

No ofense, i understand your point tho Gujjar :D

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i've never copied open source code, and those who do it ( like once there was this Ihtesham dude here who does it ) i really dislike them.

Open Source and FSF both are some what idiotic movements.

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Mo pawa to them since they do have Microbeeotch by her balls :wink:

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yeah, there should be tougher laws for movies.. only quality prints should be allowed. khoon pasina aik kar k download karo, phir pata chalta hai k sound theek nahi hai... ban those uploaders

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Watching a movie on the Computer screen is as awful as swimming with your shoes on. I'd rather like to go to Cinema than wasting hours & bandwidth to download. As far as softwares are concerned ... you guys would know my answer ... I am not a MS fan & what I use ... I dont need to download copyrighted Softwares for that.

Mr. Genius ya you are right, 10 out 10 for you. :)

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^^ :hehe:

Burp
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Oh Sh!t! I m in trouble. :hehe:

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