Submitted by: CHoJiN
Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000505-000014.html
PWA Bust !
Five guys from Intel, all members of "Pirates With Attitude" have been busted by FBI.
Was US based but PWA is of course bigger then that. They have links in Belgium and Sweden
Five Intel workers from Satan Clara are amongst a gang of seventeen were charged yesterday in what the FBI describes as "The most significant investigation of copyright infringement involving the use of the Internet conducted to date." The group is alleged to have hijacked 5000 pieces of software valued at more than $1 million. The piracy ring, based in Canada at Quebec's Sherbrooke University, called itself "Pirates with Attitude" and also included members in Sweden and Belgium. Four Intel employees are accused of supplying hardware to the crooks in 1998 and a fifth with distributing the illegal software they received in return. |
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