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• eRUPT (also author of RuptBot!) and Doc-X busted, lived in Miami. There was a Miami warrant executed and they are both DOD members.
  
• Police investigations on a large campus network (polytechnic of pohjois-savo) ( pspt.fi multiple 100mbit sites )
  
• sui not arrested, just took his computer
  
• CORRECTED: thraxis was queensland not Melbourne .au
  
• 2 Polish cracking groups busted (CookieCrK and AAoCG)
  CookieCrK's site was www.cookiecrk.org. As of now, you can still search for it on www.google.com and see the cached site (it listed cracking tools)
  AAoCG's site was www.aaocg.prv.pl. As of now, you can still search for it on www.google.com and see the cached site (it listed cracking tools)
• ^stealth, guy from Oregon, got busted. he did ps2 and game iso's. 3 federal agents and 2 deputies took away his computer. he had 6 terabytes of info.
  
• Take a look at http://www.internettrafficreport.com/#graphs -- internet traffic dropped 50% since raids
  
• Confirmed story surrounding bigrar (chris tresco) and a former associate:
  I worked at the economics department back in july of 2001. I started working with 5 other northeastern university students in the systems administration department. One of which was Chris Tresco, the member of DoD.
  They all were a great bunch of people, really friendly, and down-to-earth. Summer is pretty slow at MIT because not too much goes on besides grad student work.
  The first day of work i went through an "initiation" in which we went out to eat at the "Cheesecake Factory" resturant in Cambridge, a very posh resturant. My initiation was to select the appetizers for the rest of the department, if they liked my choices then i would become a part of the group, otherwise... i don't know. The talk around the table focused on our manager Lisa talking about an ex-employee who used to screw around with rather ugly women, and how he was a man-whore, etc. Very casual, even almost vulgar conversation. I felt very at ease, they were close, and quickly became friendly towards me. The bill was quite expensive, but of course MIT paid. This was monday.
  Later that day Chris and the other guys showed me the systems, and explained what each machine did, and the basic design of the network. I noticed a rather large file server, and when i asked what it did, Chris explained that it was his own machine. I browsed the web
  Tuesday rolled around and I was updating different professors homepages with a new design template. Not too much really, i finished the job quickly. Later in the afternoon, the manager Lisa came into our office and asked us "Do you guys need anything?". Chris turned and said "I could use a beer." another guy said "How about a foot massage?", i turned and said "I could use a back rub." She laughed and returned to her office. I spent the rest of the day updaing the website, and watching the guys messaround with the mp3 server, and the music one guy was making with Cubase.
  I had yet to fill out any working papers as it was only my 2nd day working.
  Wednesday rolled around, and the day started as normal. Chris showed me his computer, and i noticed the 3+ terabytes of disk space it had. He casually informed me that it was a DoD "Drop box", and that if i created a directory with the name of a software, or mp3 title, that in the directory the next day it would appear there, almost like magic.
  Later in the afternoon, the manager called me into her office, i thought she was going to have me fill out some forms for work. Once i was in her office, she had me sit down.
  "About that joke you made yesterday..." she said.
  "Umm, which one was that..." I replied
  "The one about the back rub.... i didn't appreciate that, it was a direct insult to my authority." She said.
  "Oh, that one.... I'm sorry, but i didn't really mean anything by it, the other guys were joking around as well, and i didn't think anything of it. I replied, suprised.
  "Well i didn't think it was very professional, and with the Professors and expensive equipment we have here at MIT, i expeceted a higher level of professionalism from you." She said.
  "Oh.... well you guys all seemed to be pretty relaxed. With no dress code, and you're down-to-earth, and friendly personalities, you all seemed like a bunch of bar-mates, and just happen to work together. I thought my comment was right at home. I'm sorry, but i guess i shouldn't have said that afterall." I said shocked.
  "Well, i'm sorry, but i'm going to have to let you go." She said quickly.
  "You mean i'm fired? Don't i get any warning, or second chance or anything? I mean... i didn't really mean anything by it, it was just friendly banter. I said be wildered.
  "I'm sorry, but i feel that it upsurped my authority, and we expect a high level of professionalism here. She said.
  "Well thats funny, because with the conversation at lunch on monday, the birkenstock sandals, t-shirts, shorts, and most of all, the warez server in the other room, i didn't really see a high level of professionalism, if any whatsoever." I snapped.
  "I'm sorry, my decision is final, you can leave now if you like. Or finish out the rest of the day..." She said, and looked away.
  I got paid for the rest of the week, and left. Then I heard this story.
  I guess she'll not be working long after this, it was right under her nose. Good managering i guess.
  I'm glad i got fired.
  
• Another story from a Purdue university student:
  I attend Purdue University and i can tell for sure that there is now reason for there to be software piracy. tell me tell you why.
  Purdue University has an Agreement with Microsoft which enable us to recive original, lisenced versions of original Microsft Software for 5$. u can check out the detaile here> http://www.purdue.edu/MSCA/.
  We get all software right from Windows Xp to office to the full 6cd pack of Visual Studio 6 for only 5 dollars.
  Every student is entitle to a copy and there are no limitations.
  Futhermore, Purdue's Computer society host and Ftp mirror for almost all the possible Linux ditro's thereby not even needing us to use up extra bandwidth to download from outside.
  Very recently i belive there has even been agreement to let the Computer Science Majors to download all of the Microsoft software free of charge from a web server starting from even the arabic version of Windows 3.11 up till windows Xp.
  And ALL this this is being done legally. therefore i see no reason for there to be Software piracy at Purdue University. The article just mentions there had been raid and i think this is just to Defame Purdue Univsity. It does not even say that any thing was confiscated at purdue university - Just another Angry purdue Student :)
  
• A search on www.newscheck.cc reveals there were 40865 warez releases in the last 7 months, of which only 411 were by DoD. (1% of releases)
  
• Halfmoon2 Has Been Busted, 32 Boxes were confiscated and so were 200+ DVD CD's, HM2 Was affiliated with VCDWS
  
• A good link (video broadcast about the busts): here
  
• Centropy is not dead. At all.
  
• http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/13/national/national16.html story takes quotes from http://www.defacto2.net/apollo-x/bandido.htm
  
• ievil(busted) runs the newly linked swedish efnet-server
  
• TFL says:
  We would like to make something very clear. There is a huge misunderstanding as to why we release the programs to the end user. Basically this is why: Lots of applications cost a lot more money than endusers can afford (some cost $50,000+). We release a FULLY functional program for endusers to evaluate, learn, try or compare and then decide if it's right for him/her. We do NOT release these applications for companies to use them in a working enviroment where they would not have to buy them from the original maker, therefore COMPLETELY misrepresenting our goal. At this case we ENCOURAGE original makers to come to such companies and do whatever they need to them. Moral of this is: If you use programs at work for anything rather than evaluating BEFORE buying, you deserve to be caught!
  
• This is the only official site: http://www.urbanghetto.net/dod any others are imitations.
  
• From a local newspaper .. the bust at purdue ... (lafayette,indiana) ... one student was raided and equip taken and he was taken away by US customs agents and the purdue university police ...
  
• DupeFrench.com's dupechecker has been temporary closed
  
• No scene actions in Switzerland or France since busts
  
• ViBe (french divx) is closed
  
• Xplicit (french divx) is closed: "La team XpliciT a le regret de vous annoncer sa fermeture suite aux évenement facheux pour la scene toute entiere... La fermeture est immediate ... Bonne continuation a tous et a toutes."
  
• Article about busts in french: http://www.zataz.com/zataz/news.php?id=417&file=01.html and http://fr.news.yahoo.com/011212/85/2c524.html?
  
• Only 41 mp3 releases for today, RNS and KSi haven't stopped. Most european dance groups closed their chans.
  
• A lot of siteops that still have their sites up are being asked by users to ipdel/change or deluser their accounts
  
• 23 year old DOD cracker caught -- was from MIT. Chris Tresco aka bigrar. story here
  
• Chinese news about the busts at: http://tw.news.yahoo.com/2001/12/13/international/ctnews/2907409.html
  
• BaLLz from mp3 group CSR got busted. Unclear whether reason was mp3-related or iso-related.
  
• FBI agents raided not only MIT but also Northeastern University, Boston University, Tufts University and The Bank of America office in Boston (according to yesterdays Boston Globe, FBI agents raided not only MIT but also Northeastern University and The Bank America office in Boston as well as other businesses
  
• One of the sites seized from Northeastern University was a top site affiliated with Class (CLS)
  
• WLWMP3 permanently shut down
  
• Guy at RIT got busted for ripping and distributing DivX movies
  
• Another news in french: http://news.zdnet.fr/story/0,,t118-s2100887,00.html
  
• Okay, someone correct their four-tier theory (via comments) that infers DOD as counterfeiters at http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/15255.html
  
• Microsoft comments on the busts at http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001/12/11/software-piracy.htm
  
• 10 warrants were issued in New Hampshire, all crackers. Canada also saw some busts. Undercover FBI-ran FTP sites based in Virginia (??) and Virginia (CoreDump). Original article: http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=7323
  
• Website Designer for drinkordie.com is 17 year old male student at Orange Park High named Daniel Stratton. He goes by the name of Bigfoot2. More information here and for his full name, here.
  
• Canada, Germany, and Sweden are targets of the investigation, although no known raids have been reported to me. Source: http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000024985,20262328,00.htm
  
• BanDiDo wanted to write for Linux Gazette. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue60/issue60.html and search for bandido
  
• For those that don't know, dezzy from DoD wrote the DOD DVD Speed Ripper
  
• CROSSFiRE has closed its doors. All members have retired
  
• More raids to come. source: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8145809.html?tag=tp_pr
  
• ThrawN of DiSTiNCT/CLASS was raided in Western Australia, ThrawN's house got raided but no PC equipment was found as its in another house, no arrest has been made at this time.
  
• Checkpoint, the official dupecheckers, is just temporarily down. "checkpoint will be down until we know what exactly happend. you can help be sending infos to [email protected]. but ONLY write a message if you are 200% sure that it's true. we do NOT need any new rumours."
  
• UK made arrests! Source: here
  
• TF1, France's biggest TV network, wrote an article. http://www.tf1.fr/news/multimedia/0,,857729,00.html
  
• CHECKPOINT IS DOWN!BadGirl posted the URL to checkpoint, the official dupechecker, and as a result they shut it down completely. Proof it's down via this screenshot (update: link removed).
  BadGirl was accused of narqing on a site in Germany. They got her purged from most sites and deleted from Checkpoint. She use to be in TR, a mp3 release group.
• Six computers captured and seized at RIT today. Source: http://www.rochesternews.com/1213story24.html
  
• Zenith (0-day utils) now closed.
  
• 100Mbit site NB (NorthBridge) raided in .no
  
• REV mp3 has ceased operations
  
• STREAM (0day) is dead
  
• Regarding IRC server logging I asked a irc admin friend of mine about what he thinks. He said the following was just 15 days worth:
  Server send: 56.95 Gigabytes ( 391.5 K/s)
  Server recv: 52.13 Gigabytes ( 23.2 K/s)
  On average, 2GB of data atleast everyday. To log all that, should have a lot of TB's. I then asked him if I could parse the info as it streams. He said the connections between the servers are encrypted and he doesn't know of any fed servers that get the traffic through. And even if there was one, they'd have to work against the cryptos with all that traffic. A good link to read about how opers do not snoop (I am an ex-efnet ircoper) would be http://www.efnet.org/index.php?p=docs/opermyth
  
• "iMATiON officially closes down as a group as of this moment. Its fear that our leader TK (Thrillkill) might have been busted as he pinged out the morning of the raids and he pinged out about the time the raids were supposed to have happened.... as well there were raids done at his university. as I'm saying to everyone else... take precautions to protect yourself and hopefully everyone makes it out on the other side"
  
• GME2000 and ADM, both german DivX groups, are officially dead
  
• GWL, a german DivX group, is not busted
  
• tenkuken, DOD 3 yrs member, raided
  
• TMMVCD cease operations until atleast New Year's
  
• avalanche (RISC/DOD) maybe busted
  
• a member of the german vcd group TGSC is supposed to have been busted. no further info till now available. TGSC releases german cinema movies shortly after their public release
  
• ViTe has shutdown forever
  
• SEQUENCE, a french DivX group, shut down forever
  
• TSZiSO (iso apps) disbanded until 2002 atleast
  
• OMA (iso apps) disbanded until 2002 atleast
  
• ZEN, a US DivX group, cease operations until after New Year's
  
• COLLiSiON, a US DivX group, cease operations until after New Year's
  
• Just got this in "i am a personal friend of tyson [paradox/eminence/period] from newfoundland, canada, i just called his house about 20 mins ago and his mom just told me that he was takin away by the police, they took 5 or 6 of his PC's, that's all i know"
  
• KaMiKAZE (0day, third-party-addons) will continue to release, but taking extreme precautions; "We at kamikaze are sending our kindest regards to those who have been affected by this tragic happening (everyone). We take this oppertunity to let friends in EACH AND EVERY group know we suffer with you."
  
• MYTH (0day, game rips) will continue to release, but taking extreme precautions
  
• DEViANCE (iso games) will continue to release, but taking extreme precautions
  
• WoW (DivX, VCD, SVCD) says: "We had heard about iMATIONS drop from the scene and we are sorry to hear that, but we do not feel the increasing pressure that some of the other scene's do (i.e. divx movies) and we will continue to bring the fans what they have got from us in the past, regaurdless of the recent news as of right now we have haulted uploads and are uploading only internaly, but we will be back soon"
  
• Regarding CSR: "we will continue to release as soon as our sites come back online (although for the time being it will be 2001 only; easier to dupecheck). Also, BaLLz got busted because of his ties to the iso-scene, it was totally unrelated to CSR. I don't think he was even on any topsites, just our internal rhq."
  
• FiNAL is temp closed. It is a french group based in Canada. The leader got busted (that makes 2 in Canada).
  
• BAT (BATTERY, NoCD's patches for iso games) is perm closed
  
• NTK (DivX, French) shut down
  
• EPiC, a DivX group, temp closed
  
• Eden, French movie gruop, temp closed
  
• POP, the DOD/RAZOR sister group for releasing kid games will release at normal time this week. They lost 3 people at least, but possibly upwards to 8 people.
• NTK (DivX, French) has announced to me that they will come back when the time is right
• "the story no one knows is how many websites were affected because of their actions. They took legitimate business servers that had nothing to do with the software pirating just because they were hosted at the same company. Several of my websites are now done and they refuse to give the servers back so I lost all my content"
• EFA (iso utils, releases only EDA - Electronic Design Automation, the most expensive engineering utils) ceased operations until 2002.Their recent releases, Comsol Femlab 2.2 (12/11/2001), Aldec Active-HDL v5.1 (12/03/2001), IMST EMPIRE v2.30 (11/25/2001), and Applied Simulation Technology for NT (11/21/2001) together total more than $100,000 retail.
  
• RAiD (0day utils) will continue operations as soon as sites are available to them again
  
• MANiACS (0day utils) will continue operations as soon as sites are available to them again
  
• BadGirl, the person who got Checkpoint closed and narqed out a few sites..her ip is 213.20.228.154. Obtained from a site she has an account on
  
• THE ENVY URL IS FAKE -- IT IS A MERE COPY AND PASTE OF MY WORK AND IT'S NOT UP TO DATE
  
• SSE (mp3) ceased operations until atleast New Year's
  
• iSOZONE (Console/PC/VCD/TV) ceased operations until atleast New Year's. They closed channel, changed identities, and closed all sites down.
  
• DiA/AiD, german DivX groups, closed until 2002
  
• Inside Info: 10 more warrants in the San Francisco Bay area, issued but not yet served (soon though). 3 'connected' to Stanford, 3 to Berkeley, and the other 4 unknown as of now.
  
• PNF (mp3) temporarily closed but with message: "we won't stop"
  
• MORE info about HM2 A detailed list of exactly what was taken and what questions was asked of him by the FBI can be reached at http://www.the-cad.com/article.php?sid=1241&mode=&order=0
  

• What's the FBI site in Nevada?
  
• Information regarding effects these busts have on VCD scene and other scenes
• Group affils for each person listed below as well as site affils
  

• BUSTED: tenkuken (dod), eRUPT (author of ruptbot, dod, miami), doc-x (dod council, miami), heckler (TiL), zielin, sui (tfl/wlw), hackrat (wlw/razor/dod, california), shark (wlw/razor/dod; RatzHole siteop), thraxis (not busted; but raided -- 700 cds and computer; risc, pgc, dod, queensland, Australia), maverick (from skidrow, not from omega; dod council), sony, bandido (razor, dod council, risc council), eriflleh (dod council, philadelphia), bigrar (christopher tresco 23 y/o, dod, risc, boston), avec (former fts, rts, rise, former DOD council, razor), buj (dod, Durham North Carolina), forcekill (dod, turku finland), radsl (dod, oregon), chevelle (dallas), billyjoe (austin), ievil (razor, an ircop, had retired already), superiso (inferno; got raided), ^stealth (oregon), BaLLz (CSR)
  
• SFM was fed site
  
• CoreDump was fed site based in Virginia. But dr ice (site op) not busted ?? Possible Fed ??
  
• SFM and CD sites dropped out of the scene 2 days before busts for "group arguments"
  
• RHiSO is down (hackrat operated)
  
• rumor: hackrat busted 4 times
  
• HO is down (DOD AHQ, chevelle's site)
  
  
• FE is down
  
• LOF is down
  
• PS is down (down a few days prior to busts and should've been sitting in the room ready to put HW into FE)
  
• those 3 were sitting in the economics dept. of MIT, which would be the bigrar (chris tresco, 23) portion of the bust
  
  
• Razor announced blackout, pciso division perm closed
  
• DOD dead 100%
  
• sui got busted and he's from TFL. WLW now dead
  
• 150+ sites closed
  
• TRC retired
  
• SKR, curry group, is shutdown (ran by maverick)
  
• TheWretched and TheFrail (divx groups) also shutdown
  
• Story: 5 FBI agents came to avec's house at 9:30AM CMT with federal search warrant. took 271 cd's. watched her computer for 2 hours.
  FBI watched avec's computer for a few hours monitoring #worldsites, #eusites, and #usasites for 3 hours. all the channel sites. Her shell was open
  

• 2 people in Canada (.ca)
  
• ? people in Germany (.de)
  
• ? people in Sweden (.se)
  
• 2 people in finland (.fi)
  
• 10 people in britain (.uk)
  
• 7 people in australia (.au)
  
• 2 in norway (.no)
  
• 1 person in brazil (.br)
  
• 1 person in spain (.es)
  
• australia was hit (bandido)
  
• 27 cities in 21 states (including MIT, UCLA, Purdue, Duke, and University of Oregon)
  
• Atlanta
  
• Austin, Texas
  
• Baton Rouge
  
• Boston
  
• Charlotte, N.C.
  
• Chicago
  
• Cincinnati
  
• Dallas
  
• Durham, NC
  
• Cocoa Beach, Fla.
  
• Houston
  
• Indianapolis
  
• Miami
  
• New Haven, Conn.
  
• New York
  
• Newark, N.J.
  
• Norfolk, Va.
  
• Oklahoma City
  
• Orlando, Fla.
  
• Oxnard, Calif.
  
• Philadelphia
  
• Phoenix
  
• Pittsburgh
  
• Portland, Ore.
  
• San Francisco
  
• St. Louis
  
• Washington
  
• Wilmington, Del.