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Warez Bust Database goes live

article published on 8 December, 2008

The website PiracyIsACrime has announced the launch of their Warez Bust Database which provides an easy to search database if you are looking for any arrests attributed to piracy crimes. The post, from the site reads: "I get a lot of questions regarding people in the present and past that were involved with the warez community in one way or another. I have put this database together ... [ read the full article ]

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badkrma
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_ 		8. December 2008 @ 19:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I wonder about such sites, it seems too easy... maybe a suspicious mind might think that if you input a name then that gives the site operator a reason to search for that person or group that they may yet not know and the one who inputs the name is only helping them, and of course their ID is logged too... I dunno I could be far off on this one... but helping the net police is not helping anyone...
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DRokKer
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_ 		8. December 2008 @ 21:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Damn you caught us out with your first post! damn you Afterdawn!
back to the drawingboard 8o>
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Lee_asdf
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_ 		8. December 2008 @ 23:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Bad Grammar. Wrong "to/too/two". too-> to.
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varnull
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_ 		8. December 2008 @ 23:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
depends how you help them... G W Bush and G Brown are a couple to be going on with.. hahaha.. cybercriminals if ever I saw one :)
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shummyr
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_ 		9. December 2008 @ 00:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This IS Good And Bad
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domie
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_ 		9. December 2008 @ 05:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
what a lovely idea for a website - why don't we tar and feather those in the database at the same time and make them walk through the streets with a sign tied around their neck " busted and humiliated by warezbusters" then we can strap them into the stocks and throw rotten eggs at them and hiss and boo at them
which nosey do gooder sicko came up with this idea ?
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DjDanio
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_ 		9. December 2008 @ 11:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Foe example, a supplier for a warez group might get a lesser of a sentence then a person who just downloaded for personal use.
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Can someone confirm for me that no one has ever been prosecuted for just downloading something for personal use, only ever for uploading.
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Leningrad
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_ 		9. December 2008 @ 15:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
@Dj

never saw something like this either, but i agree.
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susieqbbb
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_ 		11. December 2008 @ 01:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is why user's hide there ip addresses and even there real names so have fun.

and you say piracy is a crime.

Did you know there are legal forms of piracy.

Let me explain.

1990-1996 the u.s adopted the burne convention used in the u.k and other country's under this convention any software created between 1990 and 1996 fall's under the burne convention the burne convention states that if a company goes bankrupt out of bussiness or the hardware and software to run the game is no longer produced basicly abandonware can be legally downloaded and modified and installed without consent from the company or copyright holders.

1997-current the u.s had recently adopted the millinium copy right act.
which protects current copyrights.
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qazwiz
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_ 		2. January 2009 @ 06:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
suspicions may be justified

just went to site and it redirected me to another site with no sign of the supposed database

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scratch that....

this DOT org site is being spoofed with a DOT com address that is redirected to hxxp://www.copyrightaware.co.uk/index1.asp

is this a MPAA/RIAA entity?
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