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标 题: FBI Cracks Down on Software Piracy
发信站: 荔园晨风BBS站 (Wed Dec 12 12:44:30 2001), 转信
By D. IAN HOPPER, AP Technology Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal agents seized computers in 27 U.S. cities Tues
day morning to gain evidence against hackers in an international softwar
e piracy ring.
Police in five countries also served warrants against people accused of
stealing software, U.S. Customs Service officials said. They alleged the
people targeted in the raids stole and distributed all types of media,
including Microsoft Windows operating systems, computer games and high-q
uality copies of new movies like ``Harry Potter (news - web sites)'' and
``Monsters, Inc.''
``This is not a sport,'' Commerce undersecretary Phil Bond said. ``This
is a serious crime. These people should do some hard time.''
The raids, dubbed ``Operation Buccaneer,'' were directed at 62 people in
Australia, Finland, England, Norway and the United States. The agents s
aid they have leads in 20 other countries.
While no one has been arrested yet in the United States, officials said
police in England have five people in custody. Some in the United States
are cooperating with police, agents said.
They include corporate executives, employees and students of major unive
rsities like Duke and Purdue, technology company employees and some gove
rnment workers, the agents said. They alleged that some of the most crit
ical members are insiders who steal products from their own companies an
d hand it over to the pirates.
``Our targets are not your stereotypical teenage hacker,'' Customs assis
tant commissioner John Varrone said.
All will face federal copyright infringement charges, officials said.
Investigators served 56 search warrants and expect to grab about 130 com
puters.
Customs agent Allan Doody said each computer has between one to two tera
bytes of stolen software. A terabyte is equal to a thousand gigabytes. A
printed directory on just one computer would span 4,200 pages.
The software industry says it loses an estimated $12 billion per year du
e to piracy.
``Software piracy undermines the stability of the burgeoning e-commerce
industry and it is a direct threat to innovative companies that help str
engthen the U.S. economy,'' Deputy Treasury Secretary Kenneth Dam said.
In Operation Buccaneer, officials targeted one of the oldest pirate ring
s - known as ``warez'' groups - called ``DrinkOrDie.'' Founded in Moscow
in 1993, DrinkOrDie became famous among software hackers for claiming i
t released a copy of Microsoft Windows 95 two weeks before Microsoft beg
an selling it.
``They are a notorious elite Internet pirate organization,'' said Bob Kr
uger of the Business Software Alliance, an industry trade group. ``I dou
bt there's much that's out there that people want that (DrinkOrDie) can'
t provide.''
DrinkOrDie now has two leaders, one in the United States and another in
Australia, officials said. There are 1500 warez members nationwide, offi
cials estimate, and eight to 10 major groups.
``Our strategy in the investigation was to disrupt the warez community a
s a whole by targeting (DrinkOrDie),'' Doody said.
The agents didn't identify any of the members by their real names, but r
evealed some of the codenames - like ``Dezzy'' and ``Hackrat'' - that th
ey use on the Internet.
Doody called ``ForceKill,'' one of the alleged members of DrinkOrDie, ``
one of the premier software crackers in the world.''
While officials said the hackers typically don't make money from their e
fforts, others sell CD-ROMs filled with the pirated programs.
Officials said the seized computers contained all types of software, fro
m high-end animation and modeling software that sells for over $10,000 e
ach to all types of movies. Doody said one computer held more than 5,000
individual movie titles.
The highly organized process of eliminating copy-protection schemes, com
pressing and distributing software takes no more than three days to comp
lete with most products.
``There is currently nothing that the software industry as done in terms
of copy protecting their programs that has not been defeated by DrinkOr
Die,'' Doody said.
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