yaaaaaaaaarrrr! ahoy!

[jeff mills gran]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page....me=pub&aid=2967

harsh..

[Hello Goaty ♥]

He can invent a new games title over the next few years.

[Sng]

That'll learn 'im. Arrr.

[iloverage]

A bit harsh, aye.

[Badger]

That's...

*ahem*

'Avast'

sentence...

Avast....a vast.....geddit?

I'll get my coat

[Moose]

Apparently his defence was that he was "going to buy them properly when they actually came out, with photos of me in GAME handing over cash at the counter and everything, honest. They're just demos, really, aren't they? Etc."

[Apollo]

Well that's what happens when you have a country run by capitalism rather than a democracy.

[SaintM]

As well as being involved in the game piracy and distribution network, Breen was also convicted of defrauding network equipment provider Cisco Systems of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware, and ordered to pay restitution of almost $700,000.

I'd say he deserved it.

[Luke]

Good. I hope he rots!

[Keyboard Koala]

Don't copy that flopy

[Jim Miles]

Fear of being made an example of like that is a ultimately a good thing. When I see cases like this I often wonder if it wouldn't work equally well for them to be entirely fictitious, but just be a sneaky way of deterring people. If you see what I mean.

[jeff mills gran]

to be fair.. razor1911 had been active on the warez scene since the early 90's.. if you took into consideration the lost revenue then the sentance seems quite right.... plus all the other stuff..

[ChrisN]

Good. I hope he rots!

With him out the way someone else can be the number one pirate.

See.. you get rid of one, the problem doesn't go away... You need to tackle the problem of people wanting pirate games, not the problem of people pirating them. Subtle difference, but very important.

[Tom_B]

See.. you get rid of one, the problem doesn't go away... You need to tackle the problem of people wanting pirate games, not the problem of people pirating them. Subtle difference, but very important.

Lies! People are fine with the price of games otherwise they wouldn't buy them - that's what Roger Bennet told me. Oh, hang on...

[Aust]

Tssk, factual errors.

The Razor1911 group, which has been in operation since the early nineties

I thought everyone knew they were started in Norway in the mid eighties?

On a rainy evening back in October 1985 three young Norwegian guys decided to form a computer group. We were not exactly sure about what we needed the group for but we were really inspired by other big groups at the time, such as Flash Cracking Group 1941, Section 8, Electronic Cracking Association 1998, ABC 1999, Jedi 2001, 1103, Djenghis Khan, Hellmates, SCC, Dynamic Duo etc.

[Kapowza]

ha, don't say that, they'll give him another year

[Alex W.]

I can imagine them doing the "You seem to have forgotten one thing..." PotC thing on the way to prison.

Well, not really, but it would be funny.

[Droo]

warez, huh... never catch me doing that...

*wanders off and swtiches on his EZF flash cart in the GBA*

[Meh]

Arrrr...

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Razor 1911 Cracking Group, yesterday

[auntyclimax]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page....ame=pub&aid=656

Tihs is more of a worry, MS banning modders from Live :/

[Tom_B]

Tihs is more of a worry, MS banning modders from Live :/

Considering that's been MS's policy from the start of Live I don't think we've got much to worry about as long as we remember to turn our chips off

[Kapowza]

Tom Bramwell 13:34 06/09/2002

they've been doing that since it started, that's what the switches are for

[alan cummings]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page....ame=pub&aid=656

Tihs is more of a worry, MS banning modders from Live :/

That story's 18 months old dude.