Suspected internet pirates in 11 countries have been raided in a global operation against illegal distributors of movies, games and software.

Led by the FBI, the search and seizure operation netted copyrighted material worth $50m and led to seven arrests. Eight servers used to distribute the pirated goods to net users and file-sharing networks were shut down. Pirated films on offer via the pirate networks included Revenge of the Sith, said US Justice Department officials.

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News source: BBC News | Technology

List of Groups (partially?) taken down:

• RiSCISO
• Myth
• TDA
• LND
• Goodfellaz
• Hoodlum
• Vengeance
• Centropy
• Wasted Time
• Paranoid
• Corrupt
• Gamerz
• AdmitONE
• Hellbound

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...Oh it does? Really? Let's see, after all the whinning & screaming about 10 million copies of StarWars being downloaded before the theater release...It still (some how...) managed to gross $150,000,000 on its first weekend.

...Now if that's what you call eeking out a living...you can kiss my ass.

I would even prefer that they say "We want to stop pirates because the righs are ours and nobody else's" (being truthful) rather than that pathetically unbelievable We-are-losing-money lies... It just makes me sick.

TDA I knew some people there, tis sad.

Meh, everyone can still rent games and copy them, so no big loss...

Dunno about you but I'm a big user of No-CD/DVD cracks. Whos gonna make them? and I can't be arsed to use a mini-image everytime!

Yeah it makes them look like greedy assholes

I have to use no-CD/DVD cracks on some of my legally purchased games because they won't run properly otherwise. I blame it on their "anti-copying" encryption which ironically forces me into using cracks to just run the games. However, that's all I ever have used them for. I don't care for pirated games and you never know what kind of malicious code might have been written into them either.

If nothing else, paranoia over trojans, viruses and worms has kept me legit, not the "we're only making $5 billion dollars this year instead of $6 billion" whines of the industries. If games were cheaper, then I'd probably buy more of them but as it is, they gouge you for costs in every concievable way then wonder why people pirate their software.

Have to agree somewhat with everyone of these posts. True, new games are way to expensive, but if you wait a month or 2, they do get cheaper. About the same with software. But, pirating IS still stealing.