Busted

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They are doing it to schools as well. Now this I think is a bit tough handed, considering that most students would not be a major dealer in warez.

I hope this form of behaviour doesn't spread to other countries as well.

They busted alot of NL Uni Sites, so yes they are going after students. In EU they'll get off with a fine hopefully, for some of the Americans busted in this raid god help them....

Up until the last couple of years software piracy in the UK was a civil offence but it was reclassified as a criminal offence. The logic behind this was that many, alledgedlty, of the major suppliers for profit were actually organised crime gangs. Selling pirated software was a means of raising funds to purchase and sell hard drugs. Based on this train of thought it was reclassified as a criminal offence. The establishment in the UK are calling for prison sentences for the more extreme cases.

America calls the tunes and it is only a matter of time till the rest of the world follows suit. This isn't meant as a cheap jibe jab at America or Americans, just a comment based on the fact that the American market is the biggest and most powerful in the world and when it sneezes everyone else catches the cold.

Wow, haven't seen anything like this before... it surprised me a bit. I will try and keep track of what happens. This seems to be an interesting topic.

Its happened many times and will happen again, read up on Operation Bucaneer back in '01. On December 11 2001 Drinkordie was busted and Razor was shutdown for a while.