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(5, 'New Defacto2 / Scene Archives Blogging and RSS Service', 'We have decided to remove the old site news service and replace it with a blogging system. This new system will not only contain the latest updates concerning Defacto2 and The Scene Archives. But it will now also post quotes and links to news items relating to the underground scene as published by the mainstream press.\n<p></p>\nIn addition we have also implemented an XML based RSS feed. So you can now read the individual news headlines and descriptions with your favorite  RSS reader. For more information on RSS we recommend that you <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10088_7-5143656.html?tag=rss">read this Cnet article.</a>.', NULL, '2004-11-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 13:56:00', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 1, 0, '2004-11-18 13:56:00', 443, 0),
(16, 'The NFO Documents Are Back!', 'As part of our recent update we have incorporated a new web based file browser application for the NFO documents. You can now use this applet to browse through 6,205 different <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/file-browser.cfm">NFO documents</a>.\r\n<p></p>\r\nYou might have noticed before that the NFO''s were temporarily removed due to legal problems. Due to these programs we had to go through and remove any file that contained either the words ''serial'' ''key'' or the like. It was either this or someone manually going through over a 1000 documents to modify the effected files.', NULL, '2004-11-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:22:46', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2004-11-18 15:22:00', NULL, 0),
(17, 'DVD Piracy More Profitable Than Drug Dealing?', '"The Guardian is reporting that according to Interpol the high profits and low risks associated with DVD piracy mean that 1kg of pirated discs is now worth more than 1kg of cannabis resin to criminal and terrorist groups."', NULL, '2004-11-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 18:42:31', 'Ipggi', 'DVD-Recordable.org', 'http://www.dvd-recordable.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1657&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0', 0, 0, '2004-11-18 18:42:00', 225, NULL),
(18, 'Two New Cracktros', '<img src="images/cracktro-scenes/Genesis-01-2004.jpg" alt="Genesis cracktro" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px;" />We have just added to our collection two new excellent cracktros released by Hitchhikr. Created for Genesis and Hoodlum, they  were both created during the middle of this year and will run on modern Windows operating systems. You can find them <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm?type=year&value=2004">both here</a>.\r\n  ', NULL, '2004-11-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:06:09', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2004-11-18 19:06:00', NULL, NULL),
(19, 'MPAA makes first move against online pirates', '"The Motion Picture Association of America on Tuesday filed its first wave of lawsuits against people it alleges have traded illegally copied movies online, a practice the MPAA says represents the greatest economic threat ever to the industry.\r\n<p>\r\nThe association filed more than 200 civil lawsuits nationwide, with the number expected to grow and eventually reach all 50 states. The move is similar to one made by the recording industry, which began suing people earlier this year for sharing songs through peer-to-peer networks."', NULL, '2004-11-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:28:25', 'Greg Hernandez', 'Kansas City Star', 'http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/entertainment/movies/10205709.htm?1c', 0, 0, '2004-11-18 19:28:00', 194, NULL),
(20, 'Film Industry Files Anti-Piracy Lawsuits', '"Following the lead of record companies who curtailed rampant Internet piracy by targeting even small-time file swappers, Hollywood studios have launched a first wave of lawsuits against people who allegedly downloaded recent films such as ''Spider-Man 2'' and ''Troy.''\r\n<p>\r\nThe seven major studios filed the lawsuits for federal copyright infringement on Tuesday in Denver, New York City, San Francisco and St. Louis. Lawsuits may have been filed in other cities, but the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the studios, declined to say how many were filed and where."', NULL, '2004-11-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:31:20', 'Gary Gentile', 'News 4 Colorado', 'http://news4colorado.com/consumeralert/local_story_323115105.html', 0, 0, '2004-11-18 19:31:00', 256, NULL),
(21, 'It might be illegal, but is it bad?', 'Michael Hinman over at SyFy Portal has written an interesting article on the problems of distributing a television series around the world. How the staged worldwide release of some series effects the piracy rates of the particular show.\r\n<p>\r\nHe goes on to say even though a small percentage of viewers might obtain and view a pirated episode before it is shown on local television. The show''s producers and networks should not blame piracy for the shows lack of ratings or its eventual cancellation.', NULL, '2004-11-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:40:52', 'Ipggi', 'SyFy Portal', 'http://www.syfyportal.com/article.php?id=1594', 0, 0, '2004-11-18 19:40:00', 147, NULL),
(22, 'MPAA Unveils New P2P ''Spyware''', '"The Motion Picture Association of America has launched an aggressive campaign against online film piracy, raising concerns in some quarters. ''Just because someone has P2P software on a computer doesn''t mean he or she is engaging in illegal activity,'' says Panda Software CTO Patrick Hinojosa."', NULL, '2004-11-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:42:06', 'Erika Morphy', 'Enterprise Security Today', 'http://enterprise-security-today.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=MPAA_Unveils_New_P_P__Spyware_&story_id=28498', 0, 0, '2004-11-18 19:42:00', 276, NULL),
(23, 'Six copyright myths', '"This is a sample of the heated exchange at the file-sharing debate about the induce act: "Taking and sharing are two different things," Jaffe said. "Sharing is not piracy. No one has ever challenged the RIAA lawsuits." In reply, someone from the audience yelled, "Give me that jacket! We need to share it.".\r\n<p>\r\nIn the real world I wouldn''t have given my jacket to anybody. On the internet, I could make a virtual duplicate and share it with everybody. Why? Because I could keep my jacket and make another soul happy. That''s what sharing is all about and it''s why the internet works so well. It''s the simple difference between physical and non-physical products.\r\n<p>\r\nAccording to Copyright law, it''s illegal to share. However, Copyright law isn''t capable of handling issues on the internet. It''s only suited to handle conflicts related to the real world."', NULL, '2004-11-19 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:45:09', 'Raymond Blijd', 'P2PNet', 'http://p2pnet.net/story/3054', 0, 0, '2004-11-19 19:45:00', 300, NULL),
(24, 'RIAA sues nearly 7,000 in a year', '"The Recording Industry Association of America has sued another 761 people -- many of them university students -- for sharing unlicensed music files over the Internet. The latest round of filings brings the total number of people sued by RIAA for piracy to nearly 7,000 since September 2003."', NULL, '2004-11-19 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:47:10', 'Kimberly Hill', 'CIO Today', 'http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_title=RIAA-Files-----Music-Lawsuits&story_id=28554', 0, 0, '2004-11-19 19:47:00', 319, NULL),
(25, 'Valve has deliberately released a "warez" version of Half-Life 2 to nab game pirates', '"RUMOR #2: Valve has deliberately released a "warez" version of Half-Life 2 to nab game pirates.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSource: Hardware and PC site The Guru of 3D.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe official story: Valve did not answer requests for comment.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWhat we heard: Apparently while cruising the forums on HL2Files.com "the Guru" came across a warning from a member. Said warning read like so: "Recently, one of the HL2Files.com members here, alerted me of a pirated warez version of Half-Life 2, apparently released via the Bittorent network." Said poster e-mailed Valve CEO Newell, who reportedly replied with this icy response; "We''re running a bit of an experiment. We''re keeping track of the accounts that do this and will be shutting them off."\r\n<p></p>\r\nBogus or not bogus?: Given Half-Life 2 was delayed for over a year partly because of a hack attack, they probably want some payback. Not bogus."', NULL, '2004-11-21 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:18:53', 'Tor Thorsen', 'Gamespot', 'http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/11/19/news_6113693.html', 0, 0, '2004-11-21 06:18:00', 255, NULL),
(26, 'The Scene News Enchancement', 'We have added some extra functionality to the blog listings. You can now filter which articles you wish to view. Displaying either Defacto2 news, The Scene News or both. Your selection is automatically saved to a cookie.', NULL, '2004-11-23 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:11:52', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2004-11-23 01:11:52', 2, NULL),
(27, 'Thomson Joins Microsoft-Time Warner Deal', '"French technology company Thomson SA said Monday it was joining Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.''s proposed venture to make anti-piracy software, a move that could relieve European Union concerns about the pending deal.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIn a joint statement, the companies said Thomson has agreed to purchase a 33 percent voting stake in U.S.-based ContentGuard, changing the deal from a two-company joint venture to three.\r\n<p></p>\r\nTogether, they aim to develop new standards in so-called digital rights management technologies, which allow online access to movies, music and other digital content while protecting it from unauthorized copying and counterfeiting."', NULL, '2004-11-23 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:58:57', 'Associated Press', 'Forbes', 'http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2004/11/22/ap1669411.html', 0, 0, '2004-11-23 01:58:57', 224, NULL),
(28, 'Valve suspends 20,000 Steam accounts', '''Last week, rumors circulated that Valve had released a fake key to Half-Life 2 to various "warez" sites in order to trap game pirates. Today on the forums of Steam, Valve''s download service, the developer announced it had busted nearly 20,000 people who tried "to access Half-Life 2 without purchasing it."''', NULL, '2004-11-24 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:06:09', 'Tor Thorsen', 'Gamespot', 'http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/11/23/news_6113916.html', 0, 0, '2004-11-24 02:06:09', 195, NULL),
(29, 'Microsoft proposes piracy amnesty', '"Microsoft has announced what it hopes will be a new attack on piracy. The company has decided to give away software to those who bought machines with fake copies pre-installed.\r\n<p></p>\r\nMicrosoft will be offering anyone who''s "unsure" about whether they''ve got dodgy software the chance to have it checked out by Microsoft, with the promise that if it does turn out to be counterfeit, they''ll replace it."', NULL, '2004-11-25 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:55:58', 'Jo Best', 'CNet News', 'http://news.com.com/Microsoft+proposes+piracy+amnesty/2100-1016_3-5466487.html?tag=nefd.top', 0, 0, '2004-11-25 03:55:58', 200, NULL),
(30, 'First mod chip for Gamecube released', '"Viper GC is the world''s first amateur coding module for Nintendo Game Cube. The onboard flash memory allows users to boot Homebrew applications, loaders or BIOS''."', NULL, '2004-11-25 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:00:45', NULL, 'XBox-Scene', 'http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EEpEFFyykEaZtHhjfS.php', 0, 0, '2004-11-25 04:00:44', 252, NULL),
(31, 'Kazaa Begins Defense in Copyright Case in Australia', '"The owners of file-swapping giant Kazaa Latest News about Kazaa claimed Tuesday their software, which allows users to exchange copyrighted music and movies online, is no different from video recorders, as they launched their defense in a landmark music piracy case in Australia.\r\n<p></p>\r\nLawyer Tony Meagher was outlining his defense strategy on the second day of a civil case in which the Australian recording industry is suing Kazaa''s owners Sharman Networks for widespread copyright infringements by the global network''s estimated 100 million members."', NULL, '2004-12-01 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:06:04', 'FWN Select', 'ECommerce Times', 'http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Kazaa-Begins-Defense-in-Copyright-Case-in-Australia-38511.html', 0, 0, '2004-12-01 02:06:04', 312, NULL),
(32, 'Internet users can be banned', '"AN Australian internet company that can ban users who access child pornography should also be able to track music illegally downloaded, a court heard yesterday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nMajor record companies are seeking to prove that the owners of Kazaa - the world''s most popular internet file-sharing software - are liable.\r\n<p></p>\r\nKazaa allows users to swap digital music files over the internet, with 100 million users worldwide sharing three billion music files a month.\r\n<p></p>\r\nBut the record labels which license the music claim Kazaa is the biggest music piracy system ever seen. They are suing Sydney-based Sharman Networks, which develops and distributes the software, for copyright infringement."', NULL, '2004-12-01 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:07:18', 'AAP', 'The Australian', 'http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11549615%255E421,00.html', 0, 0, '2004-12-01 02:07:16', 163, NULL),
(33, 'An Invisible Technology May Slow Piracy', '"Hollywood is considering whether the technology, developed by a New Jersey company, could help reduce video piracy, which the major studios contend is costing them more than $3 billion in worldwide revenue.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe secret code imprinted on a movie would not stop film pirates from spreading their grainy counterfeits on the Internet, but it would reveal the identity of the last legitimate user to industry sleuths.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe developers claim their method will improve on existing techniques to create such a code, known as a "watermark" after printing, that can only be seen under certain conditions."', NULL, '2004-12-03 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 18:03:20', 'Jeffrey Gold', 'BizReport', 'http://www.bizreport.com/news/8444/', 0, 0, '2004-12-03 18:03:20', 161, NULL),
(34, 'Hollywood loses $718 million due to piracy in Asia', '"Rampant movie piracy in the Asia-Pacific region cost western film producers more than $718 million in lost revenue in 2003, up from $574 million in 2000, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said on Friday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nMPA, representing seven major Hollywood studios, said in a statement the number of pirate DVDs seized at the initiative of the group in 14 Asian-Pacific countries and Hong Kong surged to more than 16 million in 2003 from zero in 1998."', NULL, '2004-12-06 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:57:01', 'Reuters', 'Sify', 'http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13623774', 0, 0, '2004-12-06 02:57:01', 140, NULL),
(35, 'Musicians Not Worried About P2P', '"While most musicians believe that the unauthorized sharing of music and other types of digital copies of creative work is wrong, they disagree about whether or not it hurts them. Overall, artists and musicians do not believe that P2P file sharing poses a major threat to them, according to Pew.\r\n<p></p>\r\nA preponderance of creative types surveyed -- both those already in the limelight and those struggling to get there -- said that the Internet has brought them more revenue, not less. They are more likely to stress the positive impact of the Internet, rather than the negative effects of piracy or unlawful use of their work, the survey found.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIn fact, musicians and artists overwhelmingly believe that the Internet provides them with new and important opportunities to share their work and become known. Two-thirds of those surveyed said that P2P poses either only a minor threat to them or no threat whatsoever."', NULL, '2004-12-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:01:52', 'Kimberly Hill', 'News Factor', 'http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_title=Musicians-Not-Worried-About-P-P&story_id=28865', 0, 0, '2004-12-07 02:01:52', 257, NULL),
(36, 'HD-DVD is a piracy stopper', '''Speaking at the UBS Media Week Conference, Parsons told the gathering that the film and video industry can be much more effective than the music industry in dealing with file sharing.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWhile Napster and other file-sharing programs allowed users to grab just the songs they wanted off albums, undermining CD sales, movies are entirely different, he said.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"First of all, movies ... are a unitary product: Either you want the [whole] movie or you don''t want it. And there are multiple ways to see them already. You can go to the theater; you can watch it on pay-per-view; you can watch it on cable, DVD and so forth.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"Secondly, it''s a heavier download. That''s why we''re pushing to get HD-DVD in place," added Parsons. The new technology -- developed by Toshiba and backed by Time Warner''s Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema, Viacom''s Paramount Pictures and NBC Universal''s Universal Pictures -- has far greater storage capacity than DVDs currently on the market.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"Right now, you can probably download a DVD in two, three hours," said Parsons. "This HD-DVD product is a day''s download. And that''ll be a big step [for the industry], to make downloading just super, super, super inconvenient."\r\n''', NULL, '2004-12-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:03:33', 'David B. Wilkerson', 'CBS Marketwatch', 'http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B67696DAB-8B95-4F93-9F14-02CB4012240C%7D&siteid=google&dist=google&dist=', 0, 0, '2004-12-07 02:03:33', 112, NULL),
(37, 'Hollywood allies sue DVD jukebox maker', 'The DVD Copy Control Association, the group that owns the copy-protection technology contained on DVDs, said a company called Kaleidescape is offering products that illegally make copies of DVDs. The company, which has won several recent consumer electronics awards, said it has worked closely with the DVD CCA for more than a year, and will fight the suit, filed Tuesday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nKaleidescape creates expensive consumer electronics networks that upload the full contents of as many as 500 DVDs to a home server, and allow the owner to browse through the movies without later using the DVDs themselves. That''s exactly what the copy-protection technology on DVDs, called Content Scramble System (CSS) was meant to prevent, the Hollywood-backed group said.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"The express intent and purpose of the contract and CSS are to prevent copying of copyrighted materials such as DVD motion pictures," Bill Coats, a DVD CCA attorney, said in a statement. "While Kaleidescape obtained a license to use CSS, the company has built a system to do precisely what the license and CSS are designed to prevent--the wholesale copying of protected DVDs."', NULL, '2004-12-08 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:54:03', 'John Borland', 'News.com', 'http://news.com.com/Hollywood+allies+sue+DVD+jukebox+maker/2100-1025_3-5482206.html?tag=nefd.top', 0, 0, '2004-12-08 02:54:03', 273, NULL),
(38, 'SIIA Confers Record Reward to Software Piracy Whistleblower', '"The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association of the software industry, today announced a Reward Program payout of $5,000 to an employee who contacted SIIA to report rampant software piracy at his company.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Anti-Piracy Reward Program is specifically designed to encourage workers to come forward, since employee tips are an invaluable tool in the fight against software piracy. In exchange for providing detailed information about the extent and type of piracy occurring, and cooperating during SIIA''s investigation, program participants are entitled to a portion of the fine paid by the offending company."', NULL, '2004-12-09 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 17:58:01', 'The Software and Information Industry Association', 'Yahoo News!', 'http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041209/dcth046_1.html', 0, 0, '2004-12-09 17:58:01', 308, NULL),
(39, 'German police to take 16,000 warez buyers to court', 'German police have exposed the names of thousands of users of an illegal Internet piracy site, in a crackdown on swapping illegal copies of movies, games, music and computer software.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThree months ago German police arrested a 46 year-old lawyer who, along with two brothers from Thuringia, offered bootleg software, games and movies through the high speed download service Ftpwelt.com for over a year. Among the releases offered were movies shot in cinemas with digital camcorders. According to the police the men, who are still in custody, grossed over ¬ 1m.', NULL, '2004-12-16 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:29:35', 'Jan Libbenga', 'The Register', 'http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/13/german_police_warez_customers/', 0, 0, '2004-12-16 08:29:35', 393, NULL),
(40, 'Warez P2P Interview', '"Warez P2P was originally developed this time last year by Alberto at the request of Warez.com. Alberto, the Ares Galaxy developer, was asked to produce a version of Ares with an advertisement banner.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSince then, Warez has become a project in its own right, but has yet to shake the          Ares with adware image."\r\n<p></p>\r\n<i>the interview continues</i>', NULL, '2004-12-16 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:33:16', 'Michael Ingram', 'Slyck News', 'http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=621', 0, 0, '2004-12-16 08:33:16', 268, NULL),
(41, 'Youceff Servers Raided - Updated', 'French police have at least temporarily shut down Youceff Torrents, one of the largest torrent sites and recently listed in Slycks Top 10 SuprNova Alternatives.\r\n<p></p>\r\nArjan, the site administrator, was given no warning. The first signs came Monday afternoon when the site went offline. The hosting company initially said it was due to an electrical fault.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThis morning, Arjan received and e-mail explaining that the servers had in fact been deliberately terminated and the police where on scene. Slyck spoke to a rather nervous Arjan, who explained that the police would find nothing on the servers but torrent files. He does not host any FTP servers or warez.', NULL, '2004-12-16 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:35:40', 'Michael Ingram', 'Slyck News', 'http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=624', 0, 0, '2004-12-16 08:35:40', 262, NULL),
(42, 'Hollywood vs BitTorrent', 'Hollywood has significantly ramped up its efforts to bring p2p file sharing and anyone who uses p2p applications under its heel, saying people who engage in it - teenagers, mostly - are crooks, bent on destroying the multi-billion-dollar industry.\r\n<p></p>\r\nNow the MPAA is going after people who run BitTorrent servers.\r\n<p></p>\r\nFinnish police yesterday took down a BitTorrent site and seized equipment owned by the site''s operators. The bust was at the behest of the Big Four music label cartel.\r\n<p></p>\r\nCriminal actions have already been filed in Europe, including the seizure of seven Net-connected servers, with their operator still wanted by French police, a representative of the French government said, according to CNET Asia.', NULL, '2004-12-16 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:38:41', NULL, 'P2PNet', 'http://p2pnet.net/story/3297', 0, 0, '2004-12-16 08:38:41', 297, NULL),
(43, '$200 Million LA Piracy Bust', 'In the largest counterfeit movie and music bust in U.S. history, pirated DVDs, CDs and video games representing potential losses of $200 million to companies were confiscated Wednesday in raids in Los Angeles and Orange counties, officials said.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"This action was enormous, a spectacular collaboration of efforts," said James Spertus, the Motion Picture Association of America''s vice president and director of U.S. anti-piracy operations.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"But there are other replicaters and manufacturers of illegal product out there and we''re hopeful that they will get the message from the raid."', NULL, '2004-12-16 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:41:32', NULL, 'DVD-Recordable', 'http://www.dvd-recordable.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1694&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0', 0, 0, '2004-12-16 08:41:32', 125, NULL),
(44, 'New CD copy-lock technology nears market', 'A new kind of copy-protected music CD will likely hit U.S. shelves early next year, as record label SonyBMG experiments with a technology created by British developer First 4 Internet, according to sources familiar with the companies.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSeveral major music labels have already used a version of the British company''s technology on prerelease compact discs distributed for review and other early-listening purposes, including on recent albums from Eminem and U2.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe releases for the retail market, expected early in 2005, will be the first time the Sony music label issues copy-protected CDs in the U.S. market, although the company''s other divisions have done so in other regions. BMG, Sony''s new corporate sibling, has been more aggressive, with a handful of protected CDs released last year.', NULL, '2004-12-17 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:33:17', 'John Borland', 'ZDNet', 'http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/0,2000061791,39174531,00.htm', 0, 0, '2004-12-17 07:33:16', 166, NULL),
(45, 'Dutch eDonkey site owners released', 'Seven people arrested last week by Dutch law enforcement officials for offering links to allegedly copyright-infringing content have been released. The group shared thousands of movies, games and music files through eDonkey and BitTorrent files.\r\n<p></p>\r\nDutch lobby organisation BREIN remains likely to start criminal procedures against the site owners. BREIN believes that warez group DVD Europe Team, which shares illegal copies of movies as soon as they are released in cinemas, is part of the group that hosted the files.', NULL, '2004-12-20 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 21:41:31', 'Jan Libbenga', 'The Register', 'http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/20/dutch_edonkey_arrests_released/', 0, 0, '2004-12-20 21:41:31', 371, NULL),
(46, 'BitTorrent file-swapping networks face crisis', 'BitTorrent hubs that publish lists of movies, TV shows and other free downloads suddenly went dark this weekend, in a major victory for Hollywood that highlights vulnerabilities in technology behind the world''s busiest peer-to-peer network.\r\n<p></p>\r\nLast week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) launched a series of worldwide legal actions, aimed at people who ran the infrastructure for BitTorrent networks being used to distribute movies and other copyrighted materials without permission.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe MPAA''s actions have put pressure on a short list of large Web sites that had served as hubs for the BitTorrent community and that had operated for months or even years. Many of those sites have now vanished almost overnight, including the SuprNova.org site that was by far the most popular gathering point for the community, serving more than a million people a day, according to one academic study.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe disappearance of the big sites is unlikely to eliminate BitTorrent swapping altogether, but it does bring to a close an era of operating in the open without fear of legal reprisals. The resulting shift to the underground will likely make files harder to find, as traders move onto private networks or smaller communities, file-swapping insiders said.', NULL, '2004-12-20 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 21:43:48', 'John Borland', 'ZDNet', 'http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39174829,00.htm', 0, 0, '2004-12-20 21:43:48', 258, NULL),
(47, 'Piracy on the N-Gage Seas', 'Every computing platform is known for something. The Sega Game Gear is doomed to forever having a really bad battery life (although I bet Sony would quite happily take the six hour battery life the Game Gear offered). The Atari Lynx was just way too big (the Lynx II is always forgotten). And the N-Gage? Every game is available online for you to download and play. For free. In the dark corners of the Internet.', NULL, '2004-12-20 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 21:47:58', 'Ewan', 'AAS', 'http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/viewarticle.php?id=133', 0, 0, '2004-12-20 21:47:58', 230, NULL),
(48, 'Police decode customer list for bootleg films', 'Investigators have managed to decode an encrypted list of customers who bought bootleg films from a German website, meaning criminal charges may be laid against thousands of web users, a spokesman for Thuringia state police said.\r\n<p></p>\r\nPolice swooped in September on what was described as one of the western world''s biggest internet piracy operations and arrested four businessmen including a prominent Munich lawyer.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe spokesman declined to confirm a report in the Thueringer Allgemeine newspaper that data on about 16,000 web users had been revealed when police cracked the encryption on the address list.', NULL, '2004-12-22 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:29:03', NULL, 'Expatica', 'http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=15109&name=Police+decode+customer+list+for+bootleg+films+', 0, 0, '2004-12-22 07:29:03', 112, NULL),
(49, 'Apple sues ''Tiger'' file sharers', 'The computer giant has sued three men for releasing preview versions of its latest Mac OSX software onto file-sharing sites prior to its release.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIt said two versions of the operating system, codenamed Tiger, were put onto the net in October and December.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIt is the second time in two weeks Apple has taken legal action to protect its future products. Tiger is due to be shipped in early 2005.\r\n<p></p>\r\nLast week, it filed a lawsuit against "unnamed individuals" who leaked details about new products onto the web. ', NULL, '2004-12-22 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 09:01:17', NULL, 'BBC News', 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4117465.stm', 0, 0, '2004-12-22 09:01:17', 216, NULL),
(50, 'Officials unseal piracy records', 'An Iowa City man who admitted to pirating copyrighted software then distributing it online is personally responsible for as much as $200,000 in losses to the industry, according to federal records unsealed Thursday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nJathan Desir, 26, became the first person convicted as part of "Operation Fastlink," a multi-national investigation launched in April. Records show one of the two online libraries he helped create totaled 13,000 titles before FBI agents arrived at his home this spring.\r\n<p></p>\r\nDesir, registered as a student at the University of Iowa, waived indictment and pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Des Moines. He faces a maximum 15 years in prison on felony counts of copyright infringement and conspiracy. Sentencing is set for March 18.', NULL, '2004-12-25 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 09:56:49', 'Brian Sharp', 'Press Citizen', 'http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041224/NEWS01/412240312/1079', 0, 0, '2004-12-25 09:56:49', 150, NULL),
(51, 'The Dark Side of Warez', 'It''s a given that the real warez action goes on in the vacuum of deep, deep cyberspace, not the oxygenated atmosphere of the Net where 99% of the online population surf.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIn those far reaches, warez enthusiasts trade in movies, software. music, you name it. But whatever the file being traded, it''s all about getting there. First!\r\n<p></p>\r\nMoney doesn''t come into it - unless you''re talking about the secret fees some people pay to become a part of the ''elite''.', NULL, '2005-01-05 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:08:35', NULL, 'p2pnet.net', 'http://p2pnet.net/story/3425', 0, 0, '2005-01-05 03:08:35', 291, NULL),
(52, 'Online Groups Behind Bulk of Bootleg Films', 'In not-too-secret online forums, Wesley Snipes'' latest movie, "Blade: Trinity," is the subject of intense discussion and evaluation.\r\n<p></p>\r\nBut unlike typical movie fan sites, the chatter from visitors to Web sites like VCDQuality.com doesn''t key on the vampire film''s plot, acting or bloody visual effects.\r\n<p></p>\r\nInstead, computer users dish out praise or criticism on the caliber of video and sound achieved by online groups whose sole mission is to make available unauthorized copies of Hollywood films within a day or two of a movie''s debut, if not before.\r\n<p></p>\r\nFor these online bootleggers, who authorities say represent the top of a distribution pyramid for pirated movies, software and music, it''s all about the bragging rights for being first to copy a hot title or releasing the best-quality replica.', NULL, '2005-01-05 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:12:38', 'Associated Press', 'Forbes', 'http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/01/02/ap1734426.html', 0, 0, '2005-01-05 03:12:38', 207, NULL),
(53, 'The Shadow Internet', 'Just over a year ago, a hacker penetrated the corporate servers at Valve, the game company behind the popular first-person shooter Half-Life. He came away with a beta version of Half-Life 2. "We heard about it," says 23-year-old Frank, a well-connected media pirate. "Everyone thought it would get bootlegged in Europe." Instead, the hacker gave the source code to Frank - it turned out that he was a friend of a friend - so that Frank could give Half-Life 2 to the world. "I was like, ''Let''s do this thing, yo!''" he says. "I put it on Anathema. After that, it was all over."\r\n<p></p>\r\nAnathema is a so-called topsite, one of 30 or so underground, highly secretive servers where nearly all of the unlicensed music, movies, and videogames available on the Internet originate. Outside of a pirate elite and the Feds who track them, few know that topsites exist. Even fewer can log in.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWithin minutes of appearing on Anathema, Half-Life 2 spread. One file became 30 files became 3,000 files became 300,000 files as Valve stood helplessly by watching its big Christmas blockbuster turn into a lump of coal. The damage was irreversible - the horse was out of the barn, the county, and the state. The original Half-Life has sold more than 10 million games and expansion packs since its late 1998 release. Half-Life 2''s official release finally happened in November, after almost a year of reprogramming.', NULL, '2005-01-05 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:17:25', 'Jeff Howe', 'Wired', 'http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/topsite.html', 0, 0, '2005-01-05 03:17:25', 224, 4),
(54, 'Commentary: Go After The Real Pirates', 'The real warez action goes on in the soundless vacuum of deep, deep cyberspace, not the noisy atmosphere of the Net where 99 percent of the online population surf. In the far reaches, warez enthusiasts trade in movies, software, music, you name it. But whatever the file being traded, it''s not about money. Rather, it''s all about getting there -- first!\r\n<p></p>\r\n"Once a file is posted to a topsite, it starts a rapid descent through wider and wider levels of an invisible network, multiplying exponentially along the way," writes Jeff Howe in Wired Magazine''s "The Shadow Internet," defining a "topsite" as one of about 30 "underground, highly secretive servers where nearly all of the unlicensed music, movies, and video games available on the Internet originate." ', NULL, '2005-01-06 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:11:20', 'Jon Newton', 'TechNewsWorld', 'http://www.technewsworld.com/story/39393.html', 0, 0, '2005-01-06 06:11:20', 399, 0),
(55, ' A new hope for BitTorrent?', 'Just weeks after legal attacks crippled the popular BitTorrent file-swapping community, an underground programmer from its ranks has stepped forward to announce new software designed to withstand future onslaughts from Hollywood.\r\n<p></p>\r\nDubbed Exeem, the software has already been distributed in a closed beta, or early test format, by the creators of the SuprNova.org Web site, which was until late last month the most popular hub for the BitTorrent file-swapping community.\r\n<p></p>\r\nLast week, the head of that now-defunct site, a man known as "Sloncek," officially announced the Exeem project in an interview on the NovaStream Webcasting network. He said that it would be a modified version of the popular BitTorrent technology, but transformed into a decentralised, searchable network similar to Kazaa or eDonkey.', NULL, '2005-01-06 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:14:49', 'John Borland', 'ZDnet Australia', 'http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39176312,00.htm', 0, 0, '2005-01-06 06:14:49', 351, NULL),
(56, 'Site Updates', 'We have updated The Scene News again. Hopefully it''s design is now a bit more streamlined and it is clearer to use.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe adverts in The Scene Archives and The Scene Portal have been resized to better suit the layout they are located in.\r\n<p></p>\r\nUpdated and fixed some duplicated entries in The Scene Archives cracktro database.', NULL, '2005-01-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:31:53', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-01-07 01:31:52', 1, 0),
(57, 'Jail Time For Software Pirate', 'Kishan Singh, from Lanham, Maryland has been sentenced to 18 months after being successfully prosecuted for running a website that offered illegal copies of various business software.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSingh, who had pleaded guilty of running the website offered illegal copies of software that was valued up to $120,000. ', NULL, '2005-01-10 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 18:48:55', 'Steve Tateossian', 'ElitesTV', 'http://www.elitestv.com/pub/2005/Jan/EEN41e2e8fe577a1.html', 0, 0, '2005-01-10 18:48:55', 191, 0),
(58, '7 New Cracktros', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/Hlm_Intro2.jpg" alt="Genesis cracktro" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" />We have just added to our collection a new cracktro by Hitchhikr, it can be found <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm?type=author&value=Hitchhikr">here</a>.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThere are also six new DOS cracktros by Crusher which can be found <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm?type=author&value=Crusher">here</a>.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe layout to the cracktro page has also been adjusted. The tables have been changed so now larger screen shots can be used.\r\n<p></p>\r\nRewrote most of the descriptions for the magazines and reports in The Scene Archive. Outdated information has been removed and grammatic errors have been corrected.', NULL, '2005-01-11 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 23:57:45', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-01-11 23:57:45', 16, 0),
(59, 'Steam heat - Plagued by pirates, gaming industry unveils its own legal P2P software', 'Last fall, Vancouver art director Tavis Dunn recently used a new program called Steam to download PC gaming''s most anticipated title of the 2004, Half-Life 2 to his computer''s hard drive.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIt was a week before the game''s official release date, which, ironically, had been delayed for a year because the first version of its code had been pirated and posted to the Internet.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSo is Dunn, who works for Greedy Productions, producers of such popular gamer-oriented TV shows as Electric Playground, just another over-eager downloader of pirated games?\r\n<p></p>\r\nWell, no. Steam, unlike Kazaa, Limewire, eDonkey 2000, BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer programs, is a creation of the game''s own developer, Seattle-based Valve Corp.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAnd Steam, which allows for complete game downloads and seamless invisible updates, could just be the first sign that an industry that loses some $3 billion U.S. each year to piracy is considering operating its own legal download sites, just like the music industry.', NULL, '2005-01-17 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:37:14', 'Peter Wilson', 'The Vancouver Sun', 'http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=159dadcd-27ff-4332-a76c-98dfe4cc632f', 0, 0, '2005-01-17 01:37:14', 149, 0),
(60, 'New DRM Capability Stops Game Software Piracy', 'IT GlobalSecure announces its new anti-piracy solution, SecurePlay Keeper(TM) to be released in the first Quarter 2005. Piracy and game hacking are growing more serious for the computer games industry. In 2004, the biggest industry news issues behind record sales were a series of serious security breaches ranging from software piracy, to code theft, and game cheating. SecurePlay Keeper is a new approach to digital rights management (DRM).', NULL, '2005-01-17 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:38:21', NULL, 'xtv', 'http://press.xtvworld.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3923', 0, 0, '2005-01-17 01:38:21', 193, 0),
(61, 'Who are the pirates ???', 'Lets take a look, today look in the mirror and ask yourself "Am I a Pirate?"\r\n<p></p>\r\nDid you wake up and adjust your eye patch?\r\n<p></p>\r\nDo you sail the high seas in search of plunder?\r\n<p></p>\r\nFunny enough I don''t look like one, however lets discuss this with and open mind.\r\n<p></p>\r\nPiracy is the enrichment of ones self through plunder or robbery of another''s personal property or Riches. Now its time to be brutally honest what your doing right now as you are reading this article is a self enriching action by plunder of another''s property, much like what I am doing while writing this article is the same so in this sense you and I are pirates.\r\n<p></p>\r\nHowever various reasons exist that I use to Justify my actions, one being I am about as broke as a damn glass on concrete. I get paid by-weekly, I pay bills then I obsesses about where the hell my money could have gone. Therefore to make worthy purchases I feel its not good enough just taking a handout, I need to see what I am buying. This is also a common attitude among most downloader''s. ', NULL, '2005-01-17 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:40:08', 'Bryan Mett', 'p2pnet.net', 'http://p2pnet.net/story/3567', 0, 0, '2005-01-17 01:40:08', 258, 0),
(62, 'Worldwide music sales slip again', 'Global music sales slipped again in 2004, but after four years of declines the record publishers will see the return of growing revenues in 2005 due to online stores and music DVDs, a survey found on Monday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nHit by piracy, Internet song swappers and saturated markets, music sales fell in 2004 by one percent to $32.1 billion. But 2005 will make up for the damage with a one percent increase, said research group Informa.\r\n<p></p>\r\nOver the next six years, the music publishing industry will return to the $39 billion sales levels last seen between the years 1997 and 2000, before the invention of cheap CD burners and file swapping services such as Napster and KaZaa.\r\n<p></p>	\r\nConservatory of Recording Arts/Sciences\r\nOur nationally accredited school offers music recording students...\r\nwww.cras.org\r\nMusic Downloads for Only $1 a Month\r\nDownload music, movies, albums and tracks: Every artist, every song: Unlimited...\r\nwww.imusicshare.com\r\nDownload and Burn Music Only $.79 a Song\r\nTry RealRhapsody free for 14 days. Get unlimited listening access to over...\r\nwww.realrhapsody.com\r\nMusic/: Compare Prices\r\nCompare bottom-line prices including tax and shipping on computers, accessories,...\r\nwww.pricegrabber.com\r\n<p></p>\r\nLegal Internet song shops such as iTunes from Apple (Research) and Connect from Sony Corp. have opened in many countries. The services connect easily to portable music players, such as iPod, which have become very popular.\r\n<p></p>\r\nOn-line music has not made big bucks yet, contributing just 0.9 percent of total music revenues last year, but have changed the image of the industry, said Informa analyst Simon Dyson.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"It has made the music industry sexy again," Dyson said.\r\n<p></p>\r\nOnline music sales will rise to 8.8 percent of sales by 2010, Informa estimates.', NULL, '2005-01-19 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 05:12:07', 'Reuters', 'CNN', 'http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/17/news/international/music_sales.reut/', 0, 0, '2005-01-19 05:12:06', 267, 0),
(63, 'Share and share alike', 'RECORD LABELS ARE  suing preteens for piracy. The makers of Kazaa spike it with adware from their South Pacific hideout. Congress is sure terrorist child pornographers are selling heroin over the Internet. The file-sharing wars are icky, but they could be over by the next season of The Sopranos. And the best part? Artists might actually get paid.\r\n<p></p>\r\nI''m not talking about reproducing Wilco''s coup, or using peer-to-peer (P2P) to advertise for concerts. I''m talking about money that comes in regularly, paycheck-style (if people download your music, that is). This radical change will be made possible by three things in 2005: ', NULL, '2005-01-19 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 05:14:27', 'Ren Bucholz', 'San Francisco Bay Guardian', 'http://www.sfbg.com/39/16/cover_fileshare.html', 0, 0, '2005-01-19 05:14:27', 226, 0),
(64, 'Justice Dept. gains first P2P piracy convictions', 'The Justice Department on Tuesday notched its first-ever convictions for copyright piracy perpetrated on P2P networks as two suspects nabbed by the G-men in the department''s "Operation Digital Gridlock" pleaded guilty to felony intellectual property crimes.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWilliam Trowbridge, 50, of Johnson City, N.Y., and Michael Chicoine, 47, of San Antonio each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit felony criminal copyright infringement before Judge Paul Friedman in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The men made available millions of dollars worth of movies, music, computer games and software on P2P sites they maintained for at least two years, the department said.', NULL, '2005-01-19 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 05:17:19', 'Brooks Boliek', 'Hollywood Reporter', 'http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000761182', 0, 0, '2005-01-19 05:17:19', 458, 0),
(65, 'IRC Analysis - 99.9% Illegal?', ' I left the IRC client running for a period of 36 hours in these 60 channels - the largest public channels in the world. Upon entering each channel, more often than not I was greeted with messages similar to the following:\r\n<p></p>\r\n    If you are affiliated with any government, police. ANTI-Piracy Group, RIAA, MPAA, FBI, movie production company/distribution company or related groups you are violating code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act signed by Bill Clinton in 1995,Therefore you CANNOT threaten our ISP(s),person(s) or company storing these file and cannot :prosecute anyone. And you must LEAVE NOW. \r\n<p></p>\r\nThis is an obvious indicator that something illegal is going on. I have no involvement with the government, FBI, etc. so I was apparently free to stay.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWithin a few seconds, my IRC client was bombarded by a stream of messages advertising illegal unlicensed software, mp3s and the latest movies - items known collectively by illegal file sharers as "warez". ', NULL, '2005-01-21 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:16:57', 'Paul Mutton', NULL, 'http://www.jibble.org/irc-analysis/', 0, 0, '2005-01-21 02:16:57', 339, 0),
(66, 'Since When Do Pirates Have Lawyers?', ' Fast-forwarding a decade, several versions, and one big poker boom later, I happened to do a Google search on "PowerPOKER". I do this routinely to track down petty infringers, but I usually just check for my current product, "iPoker". A carefully worded ''cease-and-desist'' email to abuse@whomever.com usually gets the offender''s account deleted within hours, after which I can celebrate with a nice pirate-vanquishing ale. But this time, I was shocked to find a rather large web site called the-underdogs.org that had given away over 900 copies of my game "for free" since 2001. I was astounded. Not because they stole $9,000 worth of my old-but-still-copyrighted software along with thousands of other programs, but because they were doing it right here on U.S. soil. You see, pirates traditionally were careful to keep some ocean between themselves and their quarry. But that''s apparently no longer necessary.', NULL, '2005-01-21 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:29:47', 'Todd Ouzts', NULL, 'http://scenario.com/iPoker/news/20050119.htm', 0, 0, '2005-01-21 02:29:47', 316, 0),
(67, 'Macrovision Showcases Latest Music Protection and Anti-Piracy Solutions at Midem 2005', 'Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN), the global market leader in content protection and digital rights management (DRM) technologies, announced today that it will demonstrate its latest complete music content protection solutions, designed to reduce unauthorized CD ripping and illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing at Midem 2005 (Stand R34.23, Rivera Extension, Palais des Festivals).\r\n<p></p>\r\nMacrovision''s music content protection solution, currently on over 400 million music CDs worldwide, protects over 4 billion music tracks. Over 22 major and independent music labels worldwide and 20 resellers have utilized the Macrovision technology on over 4,000 albums since 2002.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"Macrovision is pleased to demonstrate its world-class solutions aimed at reducing the substantial threat to world music sales, posed by P2P downloading and other forms of digital piracy," said Martin Brooker, director of sales, Macrovision. "By enabling labels and artists to safeguard the supply and distribution of their music content, Macrovision provides effective and commercially viable solutions to increase the demand for legitimate sources of music content and offset the revenue loss associated with unauthorized consumer CD ripping and unauthorized P2P file sharing, downloading and CD-R burning."', NULL, '2005-01-23 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 18:14:13', NULL, 'Business Wire', 'http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050123005018&newsLang=en', 0, 0, '2005-01-23 18:14:13', 94, 0);
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(68, 'eXeem opens new file-swapping doors', 'Underground programmers hoping to capitalize on the BitTorrent file-swapping community on Friday unveiled highly anticipated software that some peer-to-peer advocates believe could blunt recent legal attacks from Hollywood.\r\n<p></p>\r\nCalled eXeem, the software aims to merge the speedy downloads of BitTorrent with the powerful global search capabilities of Kazaa or eDonkey. The first public version of the program was released by a company called Swarm Systems but has been associated with SuprNova, a Web site that, until recently, drew millions of people seeking free content online through the popular BitTorrent software.', NULL, '2005-01-23 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 18:26:33', 'John Borland', 'CNet News', 'http://news.com.com/eXeem+opens+new+file-swapping+doors/2100-1032_3-5545730.html', 0, 0, '2005-01-23 18:26:33', 195, 0),
(69, 'Why eXeem shouldn''t be replacing our bittorrent clients', 'However, Suprnova closed only after a number of other Bittorrent sites had closed, and it is in this article that we will examine exactly what the reason for the closure of Suprnova was, and will look into the history and existence of eXeem, the new Suprnova application.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe majority of torrent sites that were closed were Bittorrent trackers, hosts of the servers that work like the Napster servers used to and are required for downloads to work. Suprnova, on the other hand, was merely a link site, it didn''t host a tracker itself, and so any legal argument against it would be difficult to use in court. As such, it is unlikely that Suprnova was legally attacked by the MPAA.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSo, why was Suprnova closed? The website now advertises eXeem, and eXeem was hyped prior to the closure of Suprnova. Is it not possible that the closure of Suprnova was as much to do with eXeem as the MPAA? Didn''t the developers perhaps wait until a large number of other torrent websites were closed down in order to remove suspicion?', NULL, '2005-01-23 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 18:32:40', 'Joseph Farthing', 'p2pnet.net', 'http://p2pnet.net/story/3633', 0, 0, '2005-01-23 18:32:40', 302, 0),
(70, 'Three P2P Networks Hit 2 Million Simultaneous User Mark', 'According to Slyck.com the Warez P2P network has hit the two million simultaneous user mark. This puts the service in the league of the other two networks as a major player in the P2P arena.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAs Slyck describes, the network - which was primarily accessed through the Ares client then - reached 100K users around this time last year. The Wares P2P client then tripled that number to 300K three months later. Exponential growth continued with the network hitting half-a-million users by July and one million users by September.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWe are excited by the extreme growth of Warez P2P. It took only 4 months to go from 1 million to 2 million online, Kaleb Kain, marketing director of Warez.com, told Slyck.com. Kain is expecting even further growth with the release in five months of the V.3.0 of the software.', NULL, '2005-01-27 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:39:27', 'Richard Menta', 'MP3 Newswire', 'http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/5002/warez.html', 0, 0, '2005-01-27 03:39:27', 194, 0),
(71, 'Microsoft: no patches for pirates', 'The PR machine went on to cast WGA has a pro-consumer initiative that would protect us poor souls from the dangers of counterfeit software, which include, and I quote, "an inferior computing experience, viruses and other vulnerabilities that can result from counterfeit software." The curious thing about this bravado is that, well, that''s not really true. Pirated software is no more susceptible to these things than legit software. Until WGA, that is. WGA will have the explicit effect of making this ominous statement true, however, in that the program could deny pirated software users access to the patches that would otherwise at least grant them a modicum of protection.\r\n<p></p>\r\nUnder the current plan, validated genuine Windows users will have unfettered access to Windows Update, and Microsoft''s Download Center. Those that are not validated will not have direct access to Windows Update or the Download Center. However, "to help customers who may require more time to move to genuine Windows software," un-validated users will continue to receive automatic updates of critical patches, if their computer is configured to receive them. Per Microsoft''s wording, it is clear that this may be yanked at any given time.', NULL, '2005-01-28 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:06:37', 'Ken Fisher', 'ArsTechnica', 'http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050126-4555.html', 0, 0, '2005-01-28 01:06:37', 531, 0),
(72, 'MPAA files new film-swapping suits', ' Hollywood studios filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers on Wednesday, stepping up legal pressure on the file-trading community.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) also made available a new free software tool so parents can scan their computers for file-swapping programs and for movie or music files which may be copyrighted.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe group said its lawsuits were targeting people across the United States, but did not say how many people were being sued.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"We cannot allow people to steal our motion pictures and other products online, and we will use all the options we have available to encourage people to obey the law," MPAA Chief Executive Officer Dan Glickman said in a statement. "We had to resort to lawsuits as one option to help make that happen." ', NULL, '2005-01-28 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:45:07', 'John Borland', 'CNet News', 'http://news.com.com/MPAA+files+new+film-swapping+suits/2100-1030_3-5551903.html', 0, 0, '2005-01-28 01:45:07', 355, 0),
(73, 'German police land substantial blow against large Warez download site', 'On Wednesday the public prosecutor''s office in Görlitz in eastern Germany was obviously quite successful in striking a massive blow against the organized "Warez" scene. In a number of German federal states the police searched private residences and commercial establishments of persons alleged to be associated with the running of the web site bockwurst.dl.am. There cracked and at time commercial user software, such as for instance Microsoft Office, was offered for direct download. In response to an enquiry by heise online the public prosecutor''s office confirmed that searches had taken place but "so as not to jeopardize the investigation" declined to provide further information.', NULL, '2005-01-30 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 18:44:03', 'Robert W. Smith', 'Heise', 'http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/55678', 0, 0, '2005-01-30 18:43:59', 361, 0),
(74, 'Casting the Net', 'In not-too-secret online forums, Wesley Snipes'' latest movie, Blade: Trinity, is the subject of intense discussion and evaluation.\r\n<p></p>\r\nBut unlike chatter on typical movie fan sites, the chatter from visitors to sites like VCDQuality.com doesn''t deal with the film''s plot, acting or visual effects.\r\n<p></p>\r\nInstead, computer users dish out praise or criticism on the caliber of video and sound achieved by online groups whose sole mission is to make available unauthorized copies of Hollywood films within a day or two of a movie''s debut, if not before.\r\n<p></p>\r\nFor these online bootleggers, who authorities say represent the top of a distribution pyramid for pirated movies, software and music, it''s all about the bragging rights for being first to copy a hot title or for releasing the best-quality replica.', NULL, '2005-01-30 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 18:45:57', 'Alex Veiga', 'Kansas City Star', 'http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascitystar/business/personal_finance/10752292.htm', 0, 0, '2005-01-30 18:45:57', 164, 0),
(75, 'JHymn Goes Behind Atoms and Apple To Bring DRM-Free Music', 'Like all matter in the universe, MPEG-4 files are also made of "atoms" - it''s the term given for the set of nested data that comprises the structure of an MPEG-4 file. Atoms are key to the way the audio and video data within an MPEG-4 file are accessed. They figure in how Apple''s digital rights management (DRM) scheme is used to protect music file purchases from its iTunes Music Store. (Apple uses the AAC file format; AAC is the audio layer in MPEG-4 files.) Atoms also factor in how hymn is able to "scrub" protected AAC files of Apple''s DRM.\r\n<p></p>\r\nhymn is a decryption program based on the work of Jon Lech Johansen , who first reverse-engineered Apple''s DRM scheme (called "FairPlay"). The original author of the hymn code, which he released under the GNU General Public License, has never come forward, and prefers to remain anonymous.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe current maintainer of hymn goes by the handle "FutureProof," who describes himself as "older than 30" and living "someplace where there''s a lot of snow outside now" (the below interview with him was conducted in January). By profession, he works as a software engineer. He developed JHymn, a more user-friendly Java implementation of the original command-line version of hymn. His present goals for the project are to improve the JHymn user interface, and the effectiveness of its removing of the FairPlay DRM.\r\n<p></p>\r\nFutureProof spoke with us about the continuing development of hymn/JHymn, and explained what other tricks Apple has up its sleeve to cripple files purchased from the iTunes Music Store that the user has decrypted.', NULL, '2005-01-30 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 18:51:32', 'Howard Wen', 'p2pnet.net', 'http://p2pnet.net/story/3700', 0, 0, '2005-01-30 18:51:32', 226, 0),
(76, 'Senate OKs Anti-Piracy Measure', 'WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - The third time could be the charm for legislation that would make it a federal crime to camcord a movie and would protect the manufacturers of players that edit out purportedly offensive content from movies.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAlthough the Senate late Tuesday approved the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA) of 2005 -- a package of copyright bills -- for the first time in the 109th Congress, it twice passed the legislation in the 108th only to see it die at the end in a squabble over unrelated legislation.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIncluded in FECA is the camcorder legislation, the Family Movie Act and legislation designed to make it easier for law-enforcement officials to combat the growing problem of music and movies being distributed on file-sharing networks and circulating on the Internet before they are released. FECA also contains a measure to reauthorize an existing program for the preservation of historically and culturally significant films.', NULL, '2005-02-03 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:22:36', 'Brooks Boliek', 'Reuters', 'http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=filmNews&storyID=2005-02-03T081658Z_01_N03216921_RTRIDST_0_FILM-FILM-PIRACY-DC.XML', 0, 0, '2005-02-03 06:22:35', 261, 0),
(77, 'Norweigen court sues teen for Web site links', 'Norway''s Supreme Court has ruled against teenager Frank Allan Bruvik in a copyright case relating to MP3 linking. In 2001, defendant Bruvik developed a website for a school project that was hosted at the URL www.napster.no. Unlike Napster and other P2P file-sharing programs, the amount of illegal content available through the site was limited. In fact, there was no illegal content available on the site.\r\n<p></p>\r\nConfused? Bruvik''s site functioned as an intermediate. Users of his site would submit links to the site specifying the web location of MP3 files, including various copyrighted works. It''s important to note, however, that none of this illegal data was hosted by the defendant. Napster.no merely provided browsable links to other hosts which provided illegal content.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe court ruled that by this mere act of linking to illegal content, the defendant violated Norway''s copyright legislation. While the headline may not seem noteworthy with the ongoing RIAA witch hunt, the legal precedent established by this case is of great concern ­­- things are never "cut and dry".', NULL, '2005-02-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:34:11', 'Paul Corkery', 'The Triangle', 'http://www.thetriangle.org/news/2005/02/04/SciTech/Norweigen.Court.Sues.Teen.For.Web.Site.Links-852749.shtml', 0, 0, '2005-02-07 19:34:11', 216, 0),
(78, 'File Sharers Can No Longer Hide', 'Uploaders to eDonkey.com, Bit Torrent and other file-sharing networks beware: The commercial equivalent to Big Brother is watching you.\r\n<p></p>\r\nBayTSP, a leading provider of online intellectual property monitoring and compliance systems, last month began offering a service aimed at software, movie and music pirates. FirstSource is an automated system that identifies the first users to upload copyright- or trademark-protected content to major peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe service gives owners of intellectual property a way to identify the first individuals who upload illegal content. It also allows companies to track all subsequent users who download and share a particular file.', NULL, '2005-02-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:35:58', 'Jack M. Germain', 'TechNewsWorld', 'http://www.technewsworld.com/story/40247.html', 0, 0, '2005-02-07 19:35:58', 285, 0),
(79, 'Piracy protection for Nintendo DS', 'HE Nintendo DS portable games console will feature locally developed software that allows players to wirelessly share a game without downloading a permanent copy to other machines.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe software, RSA BSAFE, will be included in the console, which debuts on February 24.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe encryption software, developed at RSA Security''s Brisbane Development Centre, protects games as they are played and shared across wireless links.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe software locks content so it cannot be illegally copied from the original cartridge or disk.\r\n<p></p>\r\nGames software downloaded by other players during a session was erased as soon as the console was closed, according to a Nintendo Australia spokeswoman.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"This protects Nintendo and our games development partners from piracy. "It does not have any adverse effect on consumers, nor on the play experience." The player with a DS version of Super Mario, for example, simply loads the cartridge into the console and then seeks other DS users in the neighbourhood to join the game.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"They come along and decide to play, tap into it, and then play against each other," she said.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"As soon as they shut their machine, they don''t have the game any more. It''s securely held on the cartridge owned by the first player."', NULL, '2005-02-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:44:03', 'Karen Dearne', 'Australian IT', 'http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12180162%5E15321%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html', 0, 0, '2005-02-07 19:44:03', 176, 0),
(80, 'Bram Cohen fending off MPAA accusations', 'Bram Cohen, the creator of a revolutionary piece of software called BitTorrent, has to defend himself against claims from Hollywood. Cohen was always a smart kid, while other kids played outside, he was in his home learning programming languages. By the time he was in Junior High, Cohen could solve a Rubik''s Cube in a few minutes. He was a college drop-out who then went on to co-found a hacker convention in San Francisco, "I was always really weird," he said.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAt age 27, while studying psychological conditions, he determined that he suffered from Asperger syndrome, a mild form of Autism, which explained his social difficulties and seemed tied to his obsession with puzzles. He admits he can have trouble censoring thoughts or even making eye contact but has learned to control it using behavioural psychology. Now the Hollywood movie industry claims that his software, BitTorrent poses a severe threat to the financial stability of the movie industry.', NULL, '2005-02-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:48:06', NULL, 'After Dawn', 'http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/6056.cfm', 0, 0, '2005-02-07 19:48:06', 510, 0),
(81, 'Online music service usage does not affect CD industry', 'It''s been more than five years since Shawn Fanning released the infamous Napster software and unleashed the "download heard round the world." Since then, record companies have constantly used high-priced legal teams in a feeble attempt to put the horse back in the barn. For four years, the sales of CDs in the United States. dropped and the record companies blamed their recession on the pirates of the digital media age, but music downloading is not necessarily the cause of their dilemma.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe British Broadcasting Company (BBC) reports that pirate CD sales hit an all-time high in 2004. However, this was also the year in which the trend finally reversed and the sales of CDs actually rose. This rise was not due to a new breed of super lawyer, but rather because record companies have finally caught up to 1999 and began competing online.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIf record companies have anyone to thank for this new boost in prestige (and cash), it is Apple Computer, Inc. In 2003, Apple worked with the record companies to release the successful iTunes service. Apple calmed record companies'' fears about online sales and worked to provide a copy-protection scheme that is reasonable for both the buyers and sellers of music. Finally, the record companies have begun to compete with the services of peer-2-peer software such as Napster by offering their music library in the iTunes store. ', NULL, '2005-02-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:53:53', 'Jonathan Smith', 'The Battalion', 'http://www.thebatt.com/news/2005/02/04/Opinion/Online.Music.Service.Usage.Does.Not.Affect.Cd.Industry-852452.shtml', 0, 0, '2005-02-07 19:53:53', 387, 0),
(82, 'Is the Half-Life 2 EULA illegal?', 'WE REPORTED last week on the problems that many people are having connecting to the Steam servers to play Half-Life 2. We had lots of people emailing the INQ to say that you could always use offline mode to play without a net connection, but these people seem oblivious to reports online that many people are unable to get this mode to function properly.\r\n<p></p>\r\nMore interesting, perhaps, are the legal agreements that surround a purchase of Half-Life 2. One is that no mention of Steam is on the HL2 box or in the End User License Agreement, yet it is required to play. The second is that where a gamer buys a copy of the game for which the CDKey has already been hacked, he will have to wait up to two weeks to get a replacement from Sierra/Vivendi, since shops will generally not take back opened software. The third is that no copy of the game can be sold without paying Valve a $10 fee to transfer the CD-Key to another Steam account.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSo, a number of problems with tricky solutions. A big thanks to the numerous INQ readers that contributed information and advice to help us wade through the statutes of m''learned fiends. Disclaimer: I have studied law, but am not a lawyer. This isn''t legal advice, just for your reading pleasure.', NULL, '2005-02-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:57:18', 'Wil Harris', 'The Inquirer', 'http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21105', 0, 0, '2005-02-07 19:57:18', 453, 0),
(83, 'University, government users beseige free MP3 site', 'Users from several universities and government agencies, including the Department of Defence, Monash University, the US Department of Justice and Harvard University, accessed the controversial Web site mp3s4free.net last year, a witness said during a court case yesterday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nShane Pearson, an IT consultant, said in an affidavit lodged during the ongoing trial against the operators of the mp3s4free.net Web site and its Internet service provider, Comcen, that he was able to isolate a total of 214, 260 unique hosts within the access log file of the site during a 12 day period in October last year. The mp3s4free.net access log file contains records of the IP addresses or host names used by computers when accessing the Web site.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"The access log file appears to be a log of information recording large numbers of computers accessing the www.mp3s4free.net Web site via the Internet. There are over 5 million separate entries in the file occurring within a period of only approximately 12 days (beginning with the entry on October 5, 2003 and ending with the entry on October 17, 2003)," Pearson said in his affidavit.\r\n<p></p>\r\nVarious institutions and government offices were identified during the process. A total of 64 hosts with suffix .gov and 40 hosts with the suffix .gov.au were recorded in the access log file as having accessed the mp3 Web site.', NULL, '2005-02-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 20:00:56', 'Kristyn Maslog-Levis', 'ZDnet Australia', 'http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39180311,00.htm', 0, 0, '2005-02-07 20:00:56', 355, 0),
(84, 'Movie blackout for P2P networks?', 'Researchers at Royal Philips Electronics are developing new "fingerprinting" technology that could automatically identify and block transmission of digital-video files, potentially handing movie studios a new weapon in its war on peer-to-peer networks.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe technique would be similar to technology already being used to track and prevent copying of music files on some university networks. Philips'' audio fingerprinting technology is central to Napster founder Shawn Fanning''s new company Snocap, which aims to turn file-swapping networks into digital-song stores.\r\n<p></p>\r\nOnce completed, Philips'' technology--along with related tools from other companies--could be a powerful weapon in Hollywood''s increasingly aggressive attempts to choke off the flood of films being traded online. For now, the tools are in an early stage of development, but Philips has begun to show them to potential partners and customers.', NULL, '2005-02-12 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:01:08', 'John Borland', 'ZDnet Australia', 'http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39180839,00.htm', 0, 0, '2005-02-12 04:01:08', 315, 0),
(85, 'P2P rivals flock to BitTorrent', 'It''s the season for romance in the file-swapping world, too.\r\n<p></p>\r\nOnce-separate peer-to-peer technologies are increasingly finding homes under the same digital roof, as companies seek to improve their own software by drawing on their rivals'' strengths.\r\n<p></p>\r\nOn Thursday, StreamCast Networks added support for the popular BitTorrent technology to its Morpheus software, the company said. BitTorrent has become a favorite of swappers looking to download big files such as TV shows, movies and software, but it does not have a built-in search mechanism like Morpheus, Kazaa and other networks.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"Until now, the only readily available way for users to find and obtain files and content using BitTorrent was both inefficient and, oftentimes, inaccurate," said Michael Weiss, chief executive officer of StreamCast Networks. "Morpheus is able to provide a far better user experience."\r\n<p></p>\r\nMorpheus'' move, along with a spate of releases from rival companies in the past few days, is a clear sign that the impending Supreme Court ruling hanging over the peer-to-peer business has done little to slow developers'' scramble for competitive position.', NULL, '2005-02-12 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:02:59', 'John Borland', 'ZDnet Australia', 'http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39180838,00.htm', 0, 0, '2005-02-12 04:02:59', 311, 0),
(86, 'Tecmo sues for video game hacking', 'Tecmo has sued users of an Internet message board devoted to hacking into popular games, including its "Ninja Gaiden" and "Dead or Alive," to change their codes, the publisher said on Wednesday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Chicago, accuses Web site administrators Mike Greiling of Eden Prairie, Minn., Will Glynn of Davie, Fla., and others of knowingly infringing on Tecmo''s proprietary software for the games, which run on Microsoft''s Xbox game system.\r\n<p></p>\r\nGreiling could not be located for comment, and Glynn was not immediately available. The site in question is www.ninjahacker.net.', NULL, '2005-02-12 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:04:18', 'Reuters', 'News.com', 'http://news.com.com/Tecmo+sues+for+video+game+hacking/2110-1047_3-5569683.html?tag=st_lh', 0, 0, '2005-02-12 04:04:18', 168, 0),
(87, 'Norway proposes new copyright law', 'The government has proposed a new copyright law to make it illegal for Norwegians to copy songs from their own CDs onto MP-3 players, but legal to do so for making a CD duplicate.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe proposal, intended to bring Norway''s law in line with European Union rules, drew immediate praise from the music and film industry as well as criticism from opponents.\r\n<p></p>\r\nEven though Norway is has remained outside the EU, it is bound by most of the bloc''s directives through the European Economic Area Agreement.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe new proposal would allow fines and a maximum penalty of three years in prison for violating copyrights and engaging in computer piracy.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe amendment, which requires parliament''s approval, would make it illegal to crack security codes on DVD and CDs or to provide software or hardware for doing so, a news release said. It would still be legal for a person to make a copy of their own CD or DVD for private use, even if that means cracking the code, as long as it was being copied onto the same digital medium and not onto another one.', NULL, '2005-02-12 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:07:17', 'Associated Press', 'NineMSN', 'http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=37608', 0, 0, '2005-02-12 04:07:17', 174, 0),
(88, 'MPAA Takes Over Popular BitTorrent Site', 'LokiTorrent Home Page Replaced By Warning To Visitors\r\n<p></p>\r\nLokiTorrent.com, a popular BitTorrent Web site, has been officially shut down. The main page of the site has been replaced by a warning from the Motion Picture Association of America.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"You can click, but you can''t hide. This website has been permanently shut down by court order because it facilitates the illegal downloading of copyrighted motion pictures. The illegal downloading of motion pictures robs thousands of honest, hard-working people of their livelihood, and stifles creativity. Illegally downloading movies from sites such as these without proper authorization violates the law, is theft, and is not anonymous. Stealing movies leaves a trail. The only way not to get caught is to stop."\r\n<p></p>\r\nLokiTorrent had been asking donations from users for the past several months as it attempted to fight a lawsuit filed by the MPAA. The owner of the site had also recently put the domain up for sale, claiming 680,000 registered members.', NULL, '2005-02-12 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:10:43', 'Rick Ellis', 'Kansas City Channel', 'http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/technology/4189731/detail.html', 0, 0, '2005-02-12 04:10:43', 191, 0),
(89, 'US ''loses $17bn dollars to piracy''', 'US copyright industries lost at least $US13.4 billion ($17.1 billion) to piracy in 2004, not counting illegal Internet copies, a business organisation said today.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe International Intellectual Property Alliance said US industries suffered the lion''s share of the estimated $US25 billion to $US30 billion in global losses from illegal copies of films, software, video games and other copyright industries.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe IIPA traced the problems to poor enforcement in 67 countries and said it was urging US authorities to place 42 of those on "an appropriate" list for review and possible trade sanctions.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe IIPA report will be sent to the US Trade Representative''s office (USTR), which each year lists countries failing to provide adequate protection of copyrights.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe group, which includes the Motion Picture Association of America and organisations representing the music, book and software industries, said Russia, Pakistan and Ukraine were three main offenders for which action should be taken by Washington.', NULL, '2005-02-12 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:12:17', 'Agence France-Presse', 'News.com', 'http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12216098-31037,00.html', 0, 0, '2005-02-12 04:12:17', 199, 0),
(90, 'No evidence against MP3 site: Counsel', 'The legal counsel for the operator of the controversial Web site mp3s4free.net claimed last week there was no evidence of direct music copyright infringement involving the site.\r\n<p></p>\r\nDuring the closing statements in Friday on the trial against the operator and Internet service provider of mp3s4free over alleged copyright infringement issues, Stephen Cooper''s counsel Anthony Morris said that since there was no evidence, "there is simply no basis for concluding that there was any infringement of the Copyright Act to which Cooper was an accessory".\r\n<p></p>\r\nMorris added that all the links in the Web site that did not access other HTML on the site "were links to files at remote locations".\r\n<p></p>\r\n"The links to other locations were links to files that had been submitted and automatically posted to the Web site with no necessary input on behalf of Cooper. The principal contents of the site comprised of links to other Web sites and files located on different servers....evidence clearly demonstrates that no music files were contained on Cooper''s Web site," Morris said in his closing statement.\r\n<p></p>\r\nHe maintained that the mp3s4free Web site "merely provided links to files contained on server computers at other locations."', NULL, '2005-02-14 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:52:41', 'Kristyn Maslog-Levis', 'ZDnet Australia', 'http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39181116,00.htm', 0, 0, '2005-02-14 04:52:41', 464, 0),
(91, 'DVD Ripping Flourishes in Hollywood', 'Illegal DVD-ripping software is flourishing, despite well-publicized wins by DVD piracy foes and laws against copying Hollywood movies. Although U.S. copyright laws outlaw the sale of software that bypasses DVD copy protection, many companies continue to make the software packages available.\r\n<p></p>\r\nBlazinDVD of Jamaica, New York, is one of a dozen U.S. firms that PC World found on the Internet selling such software. BlazinDVD''s offering was called Perfect DVD Copy, and a photo of the software''s CD jewel case displayed on the company''s Web site claimed the program would "Override All Copy Protection". A week after PC World contacted the company to discuss this statement, Perfect DVD Copy was no longer available. A company spokesperson said BlazinDVD wasn''t aware the software violated any laws.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSurplus Computers of Santa Clara, California, and JB Software, based in South Bend, Indiana, both sell a software title called Video Studio 4000 Pro, which is published by an overseas company called Hakku. The software title contains tools for copying DVDs, also known as "ripping."\r\n<p></p>\r\nOwners of both of these companies say they were not aware the software title contained DVD-ripping software. "As far as I know, that software was perfectly fine to sell," says Bobby Hanby, owner of JB Software.\r\n<p></p>\r\nHowever, the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans providing information or tools to evade copy-control technology, including the Contents Scramble System that''s used in DVD media. Companies that sell DVD-ripping programs and U.S. users of the software are breaking the law, according to copyright attorneys.\r\n<p></p>\r\nExperts say this thriving software market exists because current DVD copy protection is no longer relevant when it comes to protecting DVDs from being copied. This is because DVD ripping software (as it is called) is so easily purchased online and, in many cases, is available for free on specialty Web sites. However, despite what critics see as a losing battle, Hollywood continues its fight to protect itself from being ripped off.', NULL, '2005-02-14 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:53:52', 'Tom Spring', 'PC World', 'http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;187704092;fp;2;fpid;1', 0, 0, '2005-02-14 04:53:52', 375, 0),
(92, 'iMesh almost ready to become paid file-swap network', 'For more than six months, Israel''s iMesh has been the strangest of beasts in the file-swapping world: a fully functioning peer-to-peer network operating with the blessing, albeit temporary, of the recording industry.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThat status is coming slowly to an end. The company is working to build a record-label-approved peer-to-peer service, using song-filtering company Audible Magic''s technology to help turn unauthorized music trades into revenue for record labels.\r\n<p></p>\r\nOriginally expected by the end of last year, the song-sales service is taking longer than predicted. Company executives declined to comment on the details of the service, but said that progress on the new service has been satisfactory.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Recording Industry Association of America, which settled a copyright lawsuit against iMesh last July on the condition that the company change its service, said it would wait a little longer.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"We''re willing to give them time to make it work," said Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the RIAA.', NULL, '2005-02-21 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:03:25', 'John Borland', 'CNet News', 'http://news.com.com/iMesh+almost+ready+to+become+paid+file-swap+network/2100-1027_3-5581186.html', 0, 0, '2005-02-21 01:03:25', 224, 0),
(93, '''Uncopyable'' DVD technology claimed', 'The Macrovision Corp. claims its new technology will eliminate most casual DVD piracy on personal computers, reports PC Pro.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Los Angeles-based company says the system, known as RipGuard DVD, does not require any additional hardware or software on a PC, but any attempt to rip a DVD will simply cause the ripper to crash.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe company would only say its RipGuard DVD uses the Universal Disk Format for DVDs to prevent the file being ripped to a PC''s hard disk before it can be copied to a blank disk.', NULL, '2005-02-21 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:04:47', 'United Press International', 'Forbes', 'http://www.forbes.com/infoimaging/feeds/infoimaging/2005/02/17/infoimagingcomtex_2005_02_17_up_0000-8491-.dsthightech_05.html', 0, 0, '2005-02-21 01:04:46', 355, 0),
(94, 'Russian music site targeted by law enforcement', 'Some of those unwilling to purchase lossy music from the iTunes Music Store and other music download services have turned to Russian site AllofMP3.com. In operation for longer than most music stores, AllofMP3.com offers DRM-free, lossless tracks from any number of artists many of whom have not actually authorized the release of their songs online for as little as 4¢ per song. Acting on a litany of complaints over the years from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and other copyright holders, the Moscow City Police Computer Crimes Division has completed an investigation and recommended the site owners face copyright infringement charges.', NULL, '2005-02-24 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:24:27', 'Eric Bangeman', 'ArsTechnica', 'http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050222-4642.html', 0, 0, '2005-02-24 04:24:27', 668, 0),
(95, 'Monolithic Defacto2 / The Scene Archives Update', '<em>As the topic says we have a huge update for you guys today, so without futher ado ..</em>\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>Added a new novelty feature, ''This week in the scene''. It reveals some snippets of dated scene triva from the old days.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The site search is now better incorporated into Google and is box has received a facelift on the index page.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/bbs-captures.cfm">BBS screen captures</a> page has been overhauled, with preview screen shots and added site information such as the site-ops and the affiliations.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The site''s navigation has been streamlined and some extra navigational links have been added to all The Scene Archive pages, in a bid to the site easier to use. (<span style="color:red;"><em>note there is some CSS problems with Internet Explorer that displays the font incorrectly, I recommend <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/">you use Firefox</a></em></span>)\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/download-iso.cfm?260015240D0104261C590E040804211B0D783E27360D3053645340523854507B54565572540C250D01062303-EN">ISO image</a> has been updated to incorporate all the recent updates to the site. <span style="color:red;">Please note that if you already have downloaded the original image, there is no point wasting our bandwidth to obtain this one.</span> It would be quicker for you to obtain the missing files from the site directly, all the changes and updates are now listed on the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/download-iso.cfm?260015240D0104261C590E040804211B0D783E27360D3053645340523854507B54565572540C250D01062303-EN">ISO download page</a>.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/nfo-files.cfm">NFO utilities</a> page has been updated with some new programs added and some others updated.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/emag-scenes/ssm-2.gif" alt="Scooby Snack Magazine 2" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" /><span style="color:green;">* </span><a href="http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=Scooby%20Snack%20Magazine">Two missing magazine issues</a>, Scooby Snack #1 and Scooby Snack #2 have been sent to us and are now online. We are still looking for numbers 3 and 6 though.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros.cfm">cracktros application</a> has been given refit. All the bugs and random database errors (especially in the Authors section) have been corrected.<br />\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The layouts of some of the information such as the Authors and the Groups have been streamlined and are now easier to work with.<br />\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>You can now display the cracktros by when they were published on the website, so you can see what has been added since your last visit.<br />\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The cracktro screen shots are now centered into a 320 pixel width box with a black background to make them stand out and display better.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>Corrected the bugs and incorrect data entries in the <a href="dhttp://www.defacto2.net/ocuments.cfm">Documents and text file</a> database.<br />\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The documents can now also be <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/documents.cfm?category=type&order=asc">sorted by file type</a>.<br />\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span><strong>39 new documents</strong>, articles and text files have been added.<br />\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The documents application has received a minor facelift, with graphical icons to display the document type and weather it is new. Plus most of the documents listed now display a minor brief of what is contained within.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>Added a new newsletter by the old 1989 group <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=American%20Pirate%20Industries%20Newsletter">American Pirate Industries</a>. Unfortunately we are missing a few issues still.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/ClassEntro.jpg" alt="Class cracktro" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" /><a href="http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm">4 new cracktros</a> have been added, you can see the screen shot to one of them on the right.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>Some of the old coded magazines use to include a <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=Reality%20Check%20Network">text version of the magazine</a> in the zip. We have decided to offer these text versions as a seperate download. This will enable the magazine''s content to be searchable by Google, or by your web browser.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>Replaced the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=Adrenalin">Addrenalin #1</a> zip file that was corrupt with a working copy.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span>The <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/help-dos.cfm">DOS help page</a> has been updated and now offers the NPMOD32.DLL file which is required for some Windows cracktros.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<span style="color:green;">* </span><a href="http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=Mind%20Bender%20Warez%20Report%20aka%20The%20Warez%20Loop">Mind Bender Warez Report aka The Warez Loop</a> download links have been fixed.', NULL, '2005-02-24 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:31:02', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-02-24 06:31:01', 27, 0),
(96, 'Alleged member of software piracy ring pleads guilty', 'A man accused of being a part of an underground network that distributed pirated software, games, movies and music over the Internet pleaded guilty to criminal charges, officials said.\r\n<p></p>\r\nJoshua Abell, 24, of San Antonio, Texas, entered the plea before US Magistrate Judge Nancy Nowak in San Antonio, Texas, the Justice Department said.', NULL, '2005-03-02 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 05:17:08', 'WASHINGTON (AFP)', 'AFP', 'http://us.news.designerz.com/alleged-member-of-software-piracy-ring-pleads-guilty.html?d20050228', 0, 0, '2005-03-02 05:17:08', 435, 0),
(97, 'New NFO pack, updated text reports and RSS updates', 'Okay we have another Scene Archives update, here it goes..\r\n<p></p>\r\nViewing and downloading the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/magazines.cfm?text=yes">text reports</a> are now simpler, as we have removed the need to go throught the download.cfm applet. (basically means one click downloads)\r\n<p></p>\r\nAdded the complete <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=The%20Game%20Review">Ionizer''s game review</a> for individual download and updated the complete archive which now includes every issue. The reason the individual issues are now online is so they can be indexed and then searched through by web search engines such as google.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAdded the near complete <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=The%20Net%20Monkey%20Weekly%20Report">Netmonkey''s report</a> for individual issue download.\r\n<p></p>\r\nCreated a new <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/download.cfm?260015240D0104261C590E040804211B0D783E20230D30320B222548734155305A5856725F59240E020A210E0E-EN">NFO pack for download</a>, it is the same 7,000+ NFO collection located on the ISO image. So if you have that, don''t bother downloading this.\r\n<p></p>\r\nUpdated the RSS feed, it can now filter to only show <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/rss.cfm?list=tsn">TSN</a>, <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/rss.cfm?list=df2">Df2</a> or the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/rss.cfm">complete feed</a>.\r\n<p></p>\r\nRSS feed has been capped to only show the 20 most recent entries.', NULL, '2005-03-02 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 05:34:06', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-03-02 05:34:06', 51, 0),
(98, 'Kazaa Assets Frozen in Australia', 'MELBOURNE, Australia -- The assets of Sharman Networks, the maker of the Kazaa peer-to-peer software, have been frozen pending the outcome of a lawsuit brought against the software-maker by the recording industry.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe personal assets of Sharman''s directors, including their homes, have also been frozen following the latest legal push. Australia''s Federal Court heard the music industry''s motion in Sydney on Friday. The assets of Altnet, which licenses technology to Sharman and is a co-respondent in the action brought against Sharman, have also been affected.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe maneuvering comes just days after Altnet said it would set up a fund designed to give independent record labels a share of Kazaa''s advertising revenue. Lee Jaffe, Altnet''s president, told Wired News the asset freeze is nothing more than an attempt by the major record labels to choke off a revenue stream destined for the cartel''s smaller rivals.', NULL, '2005-03-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:00:36', 'Patrick Gray', 'Wired', 'http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66792,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2', 0, 0, '2005-03-07 02:00:36', 448, 0),
(99, 'Kazaa execs agree to asset freeze', 'Executives associated with peer to peer software Web site Kazaa have agreed not to move, dispose of or disperse their private assets following a request made by record companies to the Federal Court on Friday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Australia record companies were seeking a Mareva order -- which covers freezing of assets -- against the P2P software provider Sharman Networks and associated parties as part of the ongoing trial over alleged copyright infringing activity.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe applicants--the record labels-- said they were seeking the Mareva orders in order to "restrain...the respondents from dealing with assets under their control so as to dissipate or remove them from the applicants'' reach and thereby frustrate a potential judgment in the applicants'' favour".', NULL, '2005-03-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:02:06', 'Kristyn Maslog-Levis', 'ZDnet Australia', 'http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39183727,00.htm', 0, 0, '2005-03-07 02:02:06', 414, 0),
(100, 'AllofMP3.com escapes criminal lawsuit, for now', 'On February 2004 the Computer Crimes division of Moscow City Police recommended that prosecutors initiate a criminal lawsuit against AllofMP3.com, a Russian music site selling MP3 downloads by the megabytes. The investigation was initially launched at the request of IFPI Moscow. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry previously sued a similar Spanish project, with PureTunes.com settling with the industry for $10 million.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe case of AllofMP3.com was further complicated by compulsory licensing, adopted by Russian legislature. Compulsory licensing stipulates that licenses should be issued in non-discriminatory manner to anyone who wants to get one on reasonable terms. Russian Multimedia and Network Society was in charge of establishing the reasonable terms, and according to Russian legislation, anyone could distribute music, provided they track downloads and pay back some nominal fee. This is very different from the legislature in the United States, where a music distributor would have to gain a license before selling any music online, and furthermore, could be denied such license for whatever reasons.', NULL, '2005-03-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:03:10', 'Alex Moskalyuk', 'Alex Moskalyuk Online', 'http://moskalyuk.com/blog/allofmp3com-escapes-criminal-lawsuit-for-now/475', 0, 0, '2005-03-07 02:03:10', 496, 0),
(101, 'Elite computer pirates plead guilty in bootlegging crackdown', 'Three top members of a global computer piracy network admitted Thursday that they shuttled millions of dollars in computer games, movies and software around the world through a coded system of Web sites and chat rooms.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe men pleaded guilty in U.S. District court to federal copyright charges, becoming the first Americans convicted in what the Justice Department said was the largest-ever investigation of software piracy.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAll said they made no money off the conspiracy and U.S. Attorney Kevin O''Connor said they considered themselves "the Robin Hoods of cyberspace."\r\n<p></p>\r\nBut investigators said the bootlegged software ended up on the streets of foreign countries, selling for pennies on the dollar.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe investigation _ dubbed "Operation Higher Education" because many pirates use computers at universities _ spanned across the United States and about a dozen foreign countries. FBI agents in New Haven said the case broke open when they infiltrated the clandestine "warez" community on the Internet.', NULL, '2005-03-09 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:26:06', 'Matt Apuzzo', 'Newsday', 'http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--computerpiracy0309mar08,0,4910792.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut', 0, 0, '2005-03-09 02:26:06', 349, 0),
(102, 'Music piracy unit raids ISP in BitTorrent assault', 'Australia''s music industry piracy investigations unit has raided an Internet service provider in Perth in what it says is the first Australian assault on the use of BitTorrent technology for copyright infringement.\r\n<p></p>\r\nOutgoing Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) general manager, Michael Speck, said the raid was launched this afternoon at the offices of Swiftel Communications in the Western Australian capital''s central business district after federal magistrate Rolf Driver yesterday granted a civil search order.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"We have identified Swiftel as an ISP which has adopted BitTorrent technology to link infringers to music clips and sound recordings," Speck commented in a statement released this afternoon. "We believe hundreds of thousands of downloads have been conducted in the last year in breach of copyright laws".', NULL, '2005-03-10 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:39:59', 'Kristyn Maslog-Levi', 'ZDnet Australia', 'http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39184042,00.htm', 0, 0, '2005-03-10 08:39:59', 454, 0);
INSERT INTO `thescenenews` (`id`, `Title`, `Description`, `Summary`, `Date`, `Time`, `Author`, `Source`, `SourceLink`, `Defacto2News`, `Hide`, `OBCTime`, `Views`, `Rating`) VALUES
(103, 'Game-Over.net founder pleads guilty in Operation Higher Education case', 'It has been revealed that Seth Kleinberg, Executive Editor of Game-Over.net, was arrested last April''s as part of Operation Fastlink, "an aggressive enforcement action undertaken against organizations involved in illegal intellectual property piracy over the Internet," due to his involvement in the warez scene. In a letter sent to his contacts, Kleinberg yesterday made these comments regarding his indiscretions\r\n<p></p>\r\n<em>I am sure you are aware of last April''s "Operation Fastlink." Unfortunately, I made some bad choices, and was involved in the warez scene. I am accepting responsibility for what I did, and pleading guilty tomorrow in the United States District Court in Connecticut.</em>', NULL, '2005-03-10 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 09:02:38', 'Andrew Burnes', 'Voodoo Extreme', 'http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/594/594301p1.html', 0, 0, '2005-03-10 09:02:38', 415, 0),
(104, 'Drink Or Die ex-member to be extradited to US', 'A NSW man faces extradition to the United States on internet piracy charges after an appeal was rejected in the Federal Court today.\r\n<p></p>\r\nHew Raymond Griffiths, 42, of Bateau Bay on the Central Coast is accused in the US of being a ringleader of internet group DrinkOrDie, which illegally cracked security codes and reproduced software, games and music worth $US50 million ($71.6 million).\r\n<p></p>\r\nHe has been indicted by the US District Court on two charges under US copyright laws.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe full bench of the Federal Court today rejected Griffith''s eight grounds for appeal against extradition.', NULL, '2005-03-13 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:56:17', 'AAP', 'Sydney Morning Herald', 'http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Central-Coast-man-faces-extradition-to-US/2005/03/10/1110417612703.html?oneclick=true', 0, 0, '2005-03-13 03:56:17', 360, 0),
(105, 'Drink Or Die member (Tim) interview', 'But Dowd denied being involved in software piracy and said he never downloaded anything for personal gain.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"I honestly believe that if you are using software you should buy it," he said, adding that this was DOD''s ethos too.\r\n<p></p>\r\nDowd claimed he only downloaded software so he could try it out to see if it was any good before deciding whether to buy his own copy.\r\n<p></p>\r\nHe said he joined DOD in March 2000 after being invited by a member called Andrew Eardley, who used the internet nickname Maverick.', NULL, '2005-03-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:20:17', 'Chris Summers', 'BBC', 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4288931.stm', 0, 0, '2005-03-18 02:20:16', 662, 0),
(106, ' Drink or Die UK pair convicted of internet piracy', 'Two men who were part of a huge network of internet software pirates, known as Drink Or Die, have been convicted of conspiracy to defraud.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAlex Bell, 32, of Grays, Essex, and Steven Dowd, 42, of Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, were among 60 members of the Drink Or Die network arrested.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThey denied downloading software for profit after being arrested in a US-led operation and will be sentenced in May.\r\n<p></p>\r\nDOD members did not make any profit but police denied they were "Robin Hoods".\r\n<p></p>\r\nThey were among eight Britons arrested by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit in December 2001.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<b>''Not Robin Hoods''</b>\r\n<p></p>\r\nDet Con Kevin Brownless, one of those who led the inquiry in Britain, said it was wrong to think of DOD as "Robin Hoods", stealing software from big corporations and distributing it free on the internet.\r\n', NULL, '2005-03-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:22:27', NULL, 'BBC', 'http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4336401.stm', 0, 0, '2005-03-18 02:22:27', 533, 0),
(107, 'Defacto2 Tweaks', 'Okay we have tweaked a few things within The Scene Archives and added some new functionality.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAll text documents and text magazines can now be viewed and downloaded as PDF documents. This allows people which higher resolution monitors to read the documents, page by page. Rather then having to continously and tediously scroll down the page. Plus you can use with the document the advanced bookmarking, commenting and search functions that come with any Acrobat compatible reader.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWe have streamlined the headings of the pages so they take up less screen space.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe DOS help guide has been updated.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Documents and Text Files application now has quick links at the top of the page to automatically scroll down to the category requested.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Scene Portal now displays the way the document is sorted.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Scene Portal now allows you to enable or disable the display of the webpage thumbnails. This by default is set to disable, and the setting is saved to a cookie.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSome of the webpage and application titles now display dynamic data to help make Google and other search engine results more meaningful.', NULL, '2005-03-31 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:27:32', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-03-31 01:27:32', 53, 0),
(108, 'Microsoft Expands Windows Piracy Check', 'Expanding its measures to combat software piracy, Microsoft will require users who want to download local language add-ons to Windows to first validate their copy of the operating system as legitimate.\r\n<p></p>\r\nMicrosoft offers versions of Windows XP in 24 languages at present. It supports an additional 20 languages with free operating system add-ons, called Windows XP Language Interface Packs. The add-ons do not offer complete translations of the Windows XP user interface, but cover many of its common features.\r\n<p></p>\r\nOver the coming months, Microsoft will require users who want to download the add-ons to first authenticate their copy of Windows, blocking access for users of pirated Windows copies, the company says in a statement. The first add-on to be affected will be the Vietnamese language interface pack, which was made available this week and requires validation to download.\r\n<p></p>\r\nMicrosoft has been testing the piracy lock, which it calls Windows Genuine Advantage, on its Download Center Web site since September. Over 5 million users have taken part in the test, according to Microsoft.', NULL, '2005-04-02 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:26:34', 'Joris Evers', 'PC World', 'http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120249,00.asp', 0, 0, '2005-04-02 03:26:34', 600, 0),
(109, 'New Crack - Intros, 57 of Them!', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/rzr_we_were.jpg" alt="Razor1911 retro cracktro" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" />A big update today for you guys. We have <em><strong>57 new cracktros</strong></em> for you to view and download. Most of them are from the last 5 years so they should run fine on most modern machines under XP. You can <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/thescenenews.cfm?id=109&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm">view all the new cracktros here</a>, enjoy.', NULL, '2005-04-06 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 00:56:34', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-04-06 00:56:34', 560, 0),
(110, 'Music Piracy Suits Expand Reach', 'The legal campaigns staged by the music recording industry appear to have made a dent in the illegal copying realm. The International Federation said that traffic on the Kazaa site alone has dropped by nearly half since the group began its public education and litigation efforts.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has announced a major legal initiative to broaden its offensive against illegal music downloaders.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe trade organization will be filing nearly 1,000 lawsuits against music pirates, expanding its scope to several countries in Europe and Asia where it has not filed actions before.\r\n<p></p>\r\nFinland, Iceland, Ireland, Japan and the Netherlands are among the countries that will see increased pursuit of illegal downloaders. The group said it has made headway in countries where it has been active for some time -- Germany, for instance. ', NULL, '2005-04-13 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 11:46:41', 'Kimberly Hill', 'BMP Today', 'http://bpm-today.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=053005MI764F', 0, 0, '2005-04-13 11:46:41', 353, 0),
(111, 'RIAA cracks down on Internet2 file swapping', 'The Recording Industry Association of America said Tuesday it would file suit against students at 18 universities accused of trading files on the supercharged Internet2 network.\r\n<p></p>\r\n The suits, to be filed Wednesday, are the first to focus on the next-generation research network operated by universities. The i2Hub file-swapping service has operated for a year on campuses that are connected to Internet2.\r\n<p></p>\r\nRecording industry executives said i2Hub had become a serious problem over time as students believed they could not be observed trading files.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"i2Hub has been seen as a safe haven, and what we wanted to do was puncture that misconception," said Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA. "This has been a subversion of the research purposes for which Internet2 was developed."\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe suits mark a substantial expansion of the record labels'' approach to universities, which have been a core location of the file-swapping population since the emergence of Napster in early 1999.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe RIAA has already sued the operators of university-based file-swapping networks on three campuses, and has consistently highlighted lawsuits at colleges as part of its larger campaign against music traders', NULL, '2005-04-13 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 11:49:50', 'John Borland', 'CNet News', 'http://news.com.com/RIAA+cracks+down+on+Internet2+file-swapping/2100-1027_3-5667385.html?tag=nefd.top', 0, 0, '2005-04-13 11:49:50', 315, 0),
(112, 'FBI bust NES pirates (yes the 8bit console from the mid-1980s)', 'More than 60,000 pirated copies of Nintendo game consoles were seized Wednesday during raids in New York and New Jersey, prosecutors announced.\r\n<p></p>\r\nFour people were arrested in the crackdown on the theft of popular games such as "Donkey Kong," "Mario Brothers," "Duck Hunt," "Baseball" and others, according to a release by federal authorities and papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe arrests occurred after the defendants agreed to sell the games to FBI agents posing as gaming thieves willing to resell the games in Manhattan and through a distributor in the Midwest, prosecutors said.', NULL, '2005-04-15 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:41:17', NULL, 'Newsday.com', 'http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--piratednintendo0413apr13,0,6709023.story', 0, 0, '2005-04-15 04:41:17', 551, 0),
(113, 'RZR/DOD Operations', 'Greetings DF et al.\r\n<p></p>\r\nOver the last few months, a disturbing correlation between various parties coming to interact with me and various other historic associates indicates that we''re all in for one hell of a new "life mission".\r\n<p></p>\r\nAs of today, Letterman/Peabody is finishing training for large transport vessel operations, confused as hell, because US Army and related parties have taken him (hostage) for the simple process of training on ALL old and obsolete ships. All 300 of them. All slated for disposal within a year. His training (2 sections) finish at exactly 3 and 2 days per ship left until their mandated removal date.\r\n<p></p>\r\nI looked at those ships for a possible donation for an off-shore data centre back in the 1990s.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Punnisher/The Punisher, was conveniently staged in my environment in LA last month for interactions, however all he knew was that DOJ and US ARMY had positioned him to bother me. I of course had no clue of this. He never figured out who I am.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThere are a plethora of others.\r\n<p></p>\r\nNot to mention some other critical dates and prior court cases now served.\r\n<p></p>\r\nI express concern, as the plausibility of the global IC operations to pull off positioning all of us in a logistically unsound situation and/or forcing our transition to sinking ships, indicate a massive dilusion that any of us would even consider working in a hostage situation. (Trust me, I''ve been through such.)\r\n<p></p>\r\nNow, in addition to having previously made inquiries on said ships (just 1 at that time) and knowing full well the intellectual and ethical capacities of our community, it appears coherent that as of right now, we are being staged in interest of global national security to serve as psuedo-super-terrorists. \r\n<p></p>\r\nI''ll leave the topic open to speculation. \r\n<p></p>\r\nThis message is for public release.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWhat better way to forward global ethics and intellectual rights and responsibilities than with the complete cover and support of the global antagonists?\r\n<p></p>\r\n-Wilfred L. Guerin', NULL, '2005-04-19 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 09:44:12', 'Wilfred L. Guerin', NULL, 'http://www.defacto2.net/index.cfm?item=113', 0, 0, '2005-04-19 09:44:12', 351, 0),
(114, 'Virus pits itself against music pirates', 'A hacker has created a virus that targets music lovers by deleting MP3 files on infected computers, according to antivirus company Sophos.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe worm, dubbed Nopir.B, spreads over peer-to-peer networks and appears to have originated in France, security researchers at Sophos said Friday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nNopir.B is designed to look like a DVD-cracking program, to fool people looking for a program that will circumvent copy-restriction technology on the discs. When the worm is downloaded and run, it attempts to delete all MP3 music files and wipe some programs from the infected PC, the company said in its advisory.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSophos said it believes the author of the virus may be looking to stamp out music piracy.', NULL, '2005-04-23 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:05:32', 'Dan IIet', 'CNet News', 'http://news.com.com/Virus+pits+itself+against+music+pirates/2100-7349_3-5681561.html?tag=nefd.top', 0, 0, '2005-04-23 06:05:32', 364, 0),
(115, 'Warez site riddled with mobile malware', 'A search of sites hosting cracked versions of apps for Symbian phones has unearthed 52 "previously unidentified Trojans", according to New Zealand-based mobile anti-virus specialist Simworks. Other anti-virus experts reckon that the infected files found by Simworks are more properly described as repackaged versions of previously identified malware.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe malicious files found by Simworks pose as popular applications and games such Bitstorm, BugMe Cosmic Fighter, 3D Motoracer, and Splash ID. In addition to the installation files for the app itself, the files include various versions of previously known malware such as Cabir and Locknut. There are no reports of any of the new Trojans in the wild.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSimworks chief exec Aaron Davidson said, "It would be easy for a malware author to create one Trojan and give it 52 different names. However this is not the case here where we have 52 separately cracked and infected applications. Somebody has gone to an awful lot of time and effort to turn these out."', NULL, '2005-04-23 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:14:39', 'John Leyden', 'The Register', 'http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/simworks_trojan_alert/', 0, 0, '2005-04-23 06:14:39', 673, 0),
(116, 'Defacto2 User Input', 'We have added some new functionality to the The Scene News. As you can see, some mini-stats are now displayed for each article, it''s number of click-views and the number of comments.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSpeaking of comments, each article has the ability to let you the reader say what you are thinking. You do not need to register to leave a comment, <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-comment.cfm?id=116">just click the X comments link</a> at the bottom of the article.', NULL, '2005-04-27 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 09:59:05', 'Ipggi', NULL, 'http://www.defacto2.net/blog-comment.cfm?id=116', -1, 0, '2005-04-27 09:59:05', 69, 0),
(117, 'UK DrinkorDie members jailed for software piracy', 'Three UK software counterfeiters who styled themselves as "latter-day Robin Hoods" received lengthy prison sentences today over their role in infamous software piracy organisation DrinkorDie. Another defendant escaped with a suspended sentence after a hearing at London''s Old Bailey.\r\n<p></p>\r\nFormer city bank worker Alex Bell, 29, of Chafford Hundred, Essex, was jailed for two and a half years by Judge Paul Focke for conspiracy to defraud. Steven Dowd, 39, of Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, was sentenced to two years'' imprisonment on the same charge. Both were found guilty by a jury in March at the end of a six-month software piracy trial. The Old Bailey heard that the duo were part of DrinkorDie, which brought us Windows 95 days before it was released among other exploits. Dowd and Bell, however, were tried over conspiracy to supply business software packages for functions such as financial planning or Computer Aided Design.\r\n<p></p>\r\nBell and Dowd were sentenced on Friday, 6 May along with two other men, Andrew Eardley, 35, an IT manager at a Staffordshire school, and London IT worker, Mark Vent, 30, who both pleaded guilty to related software piracy offences last year. Vent was jailed for 18 months over the conspiracy to defraud rap while Eardley escaped with an 18 month sentence, suspended for two years.', NULL, '2005-05-08 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:04:29', 'John Leyden', 'The Register', 'http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/06/drinkordie_sentencing/', 0, 0, '2005-05-08 08:04:29', 585, 0),
(118, 'DrinkorDie software pirates imprisoned', '<p>Four British members of the global ''DrinkorDie network'', an underground software piracy ring that made millions of pounds before being infiltrated in a global police sting, were sentenced today at London''s Central Criminal Court.\r\n</p><p>\r\nThe four men, who included a former employee of Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, were convicted for conspiracy to defraud. They had formed part of a gang which communicated across continents via a sophisticated online network that was also used to distribute pirated copies of popular software packages.</p>', NULL, '2005-05-08 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:06:31', 'Rhys Blakelys', 'Times Online', 'http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1600964,00.html', 0, 0, '2005-05-08 08:06:31', 395, 0),
(119, 'Cybercrime fight under-funded as millions ''wasted'' on software piracy convictions', 'Earlier this month sentences were handed down to UK members of DrinkorDie, the international software piracy "warez" group. The judge, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) all stressed the amount of damage they thought the group had caused.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThis was one of the first of NHTCU''s really complex cases to achieve completion. It cost the criminal justice system - funded by the tax-payer - several million pounds, but was it a good use of resources?\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe original investigation was carried out by the US Customs Service as Operation Buccaneer and it was entirely right that NHTCU should pick up the UK leads in what was alleged to be a global activity by many interrelated warez groups.\r\n<p></p>\r\nHowever, it soon became clear that UK DrinkorDie members were motivated by the glory of being the first to "get out" new software with the copy protection removed, rather than by direct financial reward. This was a crime that required organisation but it was not, as NHTCU and CPS press releases hinted, traditional organised crime in the sense of extended criminal families engaged in illegal activity to make a profit.', NULL, '2005-05-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 21:31:12', 'Peter Sommer', 'ComputerWeekly.com', 'http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=138496&liArticleTypeID=13&liCategoryID=2&liChannelID=28&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1', 0, 0, '2005-05-18 21:31:11', 186, 0),
(120, 'Software piracy losses rise in 2004', 'According to the Business Software Alliance, manufacturers lost close to US$33 billion due to software piracy last year, a rise of US$4 billion in 2003. The biggest problem region for the BSA continues to be Asia, with piracy rates exceeding 90 percent in both Vietnam (92 percent) and China (90 percent) and 87 percent in Indonesia. Ukraine and Zimbabwe were the biggest non-Asian offenders, with rates of 91 and 90 percent, respectively.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe BSA''s study showed that the US had the lowest piracy rate, with 21 percent of installed software lacking an appropriate license. Some other findings from the study:', NULL, '2005-05-21 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:52:54', 'Eric Bangeman', 'ArsTechnica', 'http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050519-4924.html', 0, 0, '2005-05-21 07:52:54', 555, 0),
(121, 'BSA Data', 'According to BSA and correlated with information provide by the global judicial system, there are 1,500 Software Pirates on this planet worth a total of $33,000,000,000 USD per year. This means each individual is worth an excess of $16,000,000 USD a year, and for those of you just tagging along, an allocation of $1,600,000 USD is allocated just for your personal impact. Be proud that you are each worth more than the childrens'' educational system in your city and region per year. \r\n<p></p>\r\nThe value of your contribution to the education and enlightenment of humanity as a whole should be recognised. $33b/yr is more than $5.17$ per human on this planet at this current instant.', NULL, '2005-05-21 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:13:17', 'Wilfred L. Guerin', NULL, 'http://www.defacto2.net/index.cfm?item=121', 0, 0, '2005-05-21 08:13:16', 251, 0),
(122, '10 New Cracktros!', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/vrl5k.jpg" alt="Virility 5000th release" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" />A minor update today for you guys. We have <em><strong>10 new 2005 cracktros</strong></em> for you to view and download. You can <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=122&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm">view all the new cracktros here</a>, enjoy.', NULL, '2005-05-23 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 22:43:42', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-05-23 22:43:41', 1011, 0),
(123, 'Star Wars Links Cause Federal Agents To Close Down EliteTorrents.org', 'Federal agents shut down a popular Web site Wednesday that had distributed copyrighted music and movies, including versions of the latest "Star Wars" movie.\r\n<p></p>\r\nHomeland security agents from several divisions served search warrants on 10 people around the country suspected of being involved with the Elite Torrents site, and took over the group''s main server. The agency said it was the first criminal enforcement action aimed at copyright infringers who use the now-popular BitTorrent file-swapping technology.\r\n<p></p>\r\nVisitors to the Elite Torrents Wednesday found a bright red screen displaying a message that operators were under investigation for criminal copyright infringement.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"Our goal is to shut down as much of this illegal operation as quickly as possible to stem the serious financial damage to the victims of this high-tech piracy--the people who labor to produce these copyrighted products," Acting Assistant Attorney General John Richter said in a statement. "Today''s crackdown sends a clear and unmistakable message to anyone involved in the online theft of copyrighted works that they cannot hide behind new technology.', NULL, '2005-05-26 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:38:24', 'John Borland', 'CNet News', 'http://news.com.com/Feds+shut+down+BitTorrent+hub/2100-1028_3-5720541.html?tag=nefd.top', 0, 0, '2005-05-26 07:38:24', 485, 0),
(124, 'Piracy reduced, yet the cost rises?', 'Thirty-five percent of the software installed on personal computers worldwide was pirated in 2004, a one percentage point decrease from 36 percent in 2003. Yet, losses due to piracy increased from $29 billion to $33 billion.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThese are among key findings of a global software piracy study released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the international association of the world''s leading software developers. The independent study, which indicates that software piracy continues to be a major challenge worldwide, was conducted by global technology research leader IDC.', NULL, '2005-06-01 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:14:50', 'Anonymous', 'TechNews Daily', 'http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/680', 0, 0, '2005-06-01 07:14:50', 477, 0),
(125, 'The Economist Rails on Flawed BSA Piracy Study', 'IT SOUNDS too bad to be true; but, then, it might not be true. Up to 35% of all PC software installed in 2004 was pirated, resulting in a staggering $33 billion loss to the industry, according to an annual study released this week by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a trade association and lobby group.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSuch jaw-dropping figures are regularly cited in government documents and used to justify new laws and tough penalties for pirates-this month in Britain, for example, two people convicted of piracy got lengthy prison sentences, even though they had not sought to earn money. The BSA provided its data. The judge chose to describe the effects of piracy as nothing less than "catastrophic".', NULL, '2005-06-15 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:17:17', 'Jason Schultz', 'Corante', 'http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/2005/05/25/the_economist_rails_on_flawed_bsa_piracy_study.php', 0, 0, '2005-06-15 03:17:17', 303, 0),
(126, '''Operation Site Down'' Attacks Organized Piracy Networks In 10 Countries', 'Beginning yesterday morning, the FBI and law enforcement from 10 other countries conducted over 90 searches worldwide as part of "Operation Site Down," designed to disrupt and dismantle many of the leading criminal organizations that illegally distribute and trade in copyrighted software, movies, music, and games on the Internet.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"By dismantling these networks, the Department is striking at the top of the copyright piracy supply chain - a distribution chain that provides the vast majority of the illegal digital content now available online," said Attorney General Gonzales. "And by penetrating this illegal world of high-technology and intellectual property theft, we have shown that law enforcement can and will find - and we will prosecute - those who try to use the Internet to create piracy networks beyond the reach of law enforcement."\r\n<p></p>\r\n...<br />\r\nThe release groups targeted by Site Down specialize in the distribution of all types of pirated works including utility and application software, movies, music, and games. Among the warez groups hit yesterday are: RiSCISO, Myth, TDA, LND, Goodfellaz, Hoodlum, Vengeance, Centropy, Wasted Time, Paranoid, Corrupt, Gamerz, AdmitONE, Hellbound, KGS, BBX, KHG, NOX, NFR, CDZ, TUN, and BHP. These groups alone are allegedly responsible for stealing, cracking and distributing hundreds of well-known titles, such as Autodesk Autocad 2006, Adobe Photoshop, and the movies "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." Operation Site Down is expected to dismantle many of these international warez syndicates and significantly disrupt the illicit operations of others.', NULL, '2005-07-01 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:49:54', 'DOJ', 'DOJ', 'http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2005/June/05_crm_353.htm', 0, 0, '2005-07-01 04:49:53', 396, 0),
(127, 'FBI cracks down on ''warez'' piracy sites', 'The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), with help from investigators from 10 other countries, has arrested four people and dismantled at least four Web sites used to illegally distribute movies, music and software, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe crackdown on so-called warez distribution sites, with 70 searches conducted in the U.S. and another 20 searches in other countries on Wednesday, also resulted in law enforcement authorities identifying more than 120 members of what the DOJ called the "organized online piracy underground," DOJ officials said during a press conference. In the warez community, highly organized groups work together to distribute copyrighted materials, often competing with each other to be the fastest to post a free version of a movie or video game.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe DOJ didn''t have immediate information on the four people arrested. The DOJ could take action against other suspects, officials said.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSearches happened in 10 countries in addition to the U.S.: Canada, Israel, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, U.K., Germany, Portugal and Australia.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe crackdown, called Operation Site Down, resulted in the confiscation of several computers and servers, causing at least eight warez sites to be shut down, said U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. During Wednesday''s action, more than $50 million worth of pirated works were seized by law enforcement, he said.', NULL, '2005-07-01 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:53:11', 'Grant Gross', 'Computer World Singapore', 'http://computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=1752&pubid=3&issueid=54', 0, 0, '2005-07-01 04:53:11', 402, 0),
(128, 'New Feature, Group Repository!', 'Today we announce a new feature, the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=128&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups.cfm">Group Repository</a>. This is basically going to be a library of all your favorate groups as-well those groups who in their day had a major impact on the scene.\r\n<p></p>\r\nEach group will have a web page dedicated to them. Most were possible will also contain a brief of it''s history. As well as a collection of miscellaneous files. These could be group graphic art, ansi/ascii, key NFO files, file_id.diz, text files or anything else.\r\n<p></p>\r\nCurrently we have ten groups listed in detail but this will be expanded over time. But in the mean time, go can check out the likes of <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=128&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=dod">Drink or Die</a>, <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=128&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=class">Class</a> or for some old school 1980''s groups try <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=128&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=ptl">PTL Club</a> or <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=128&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=bsp">Bentley Sidwell Productions</a>.\r\n<p></p>\r\nLet us know what groups you would like to see added in the future by leaving your suggestions in the comments section of this article.', NULL, '2005-07-04 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 22:19:35', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-07-04 22:19:35', 1597, 0),
(129, '''Operation Site Down'' Praised for Successful Raids on Pirate Software Groups', 'He added, "This kind of global enforcement action sends a clear message to the pirate community: when it comes to fighting piracy, there are no borders. Intellectual property theft will continue to be pursued aggressively through the combined efforts of foreign law enforcement officials the world over."\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Department of Justice''s action, code-named "Operation Site Down," targeted warez "release" groups, including "Myth," "Vengeance," and "Gamerz," which specialized in the early distribution of pirated games throughout the world via the Internet. ', NULL, '2005-07-14 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 05:20:40', 'Christina Ficara', 'All Headline News', 'http://www.allheadlinenews.com/cgi-bin/news/newsbrief.plx?id=2242348364&fa=1', 0, 0, '2005-07-14 05:20:39', 589, 0),
(130, 'The Firm and NAP/PA + 16 new crack-intros', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/pdx-wartro.jpg" alt="Paradox" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" />A minor update today for you guys. First of all we have 16 new crack intros for <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=130&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm">you to download</a>, enjoy. Many thanks to Matthew Groulx for most of these.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThen we also give you two new groups to gloat over. <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=130&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups.cfm">The Firm and NAP/PA</a>, both early pioneers of their days. Plus we have also updated and expanded the Hybrid page.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAnd finally we have tweaked a few things here and there. Including the fixing up of the RSS feed. The removal of the Defacto2 site news only feed (due to an unfixable bug) and the updating of both the Crack-intro download pack and the ISO image download.', NULL, '2005-07-14 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 09:48:54', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-07-14 09:48:54', 910, 0),
(131, 'Razor 1911 added to repository', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/groups/razor1911/thumb_if-rzr8.jpg" alt="Razor 1911" style="float : left; margin-bottom : 5px; margin-right: 5px; " />An awesome update today because we give you the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=131&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=razor1911">Razor 1911 repository page</a>. Razor needs no introduction as they have been around in one form or another for nearly two decades. Included in the page is a detailed biography, around 130 selected files and various links to their Amiga and C64 productions. Certainly enough to keep you busy for the days to come.\r\n<p></p>', NULL, '2005-07-21 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 10:35:46', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-07-21 10:35:46', 1311, 0),
(132, 'DOJ indict the first eight from Operations FastLink and Site Down', 'According to the DoJ, the busts netted more than $100 million worth of illegally copied materials.\r\n<p></p>\r\nCharged with criminal copyright infringement Thursday in Charlotte, N.C., were David Lee Pruett, 34, of Auburn, Wash.; Alexander C. Von Eremeef, 30, of Belmont, Mass.; George C. Stoutenburgh, 48, of Bennet, Colo.; and Jerry M. Melvin, Jr., 24, of Roanoke, Va.\r\n<p></p>\r\nCharged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement were David Chen Pui, 26, of Fountain Valley, Calif.; Shawn W. Laemmrich, 30, of Calumet, Mich.; Scott John Walls, 45, of Spokane, Wash.; and Franklin Edward Littell, 48, of Martinsville, Ind.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAll were affiliated with organized warez groups that acted as first providers of copyrighted works to the Internet. In many cases, these release groups are the original source pirated works that eventually spread across the Internet. ', NULL, '2005-07-29 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:24:44', 'Roy Mark', 'Internetnews.com', 'http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3523811', 0, 0, '2005-07-29 03:24:44', 634, 0),
(133, 'International Network of Crackers aka INC added to repository', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/groups/inc/thumb_INC-LM2.png" alt="INC" style="float : left; margin-bottom : 5px; margin-right: 5px; " />Today we give you the legendary <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=133&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=inc">INC  repository page</a>. INC are one of the most well known groups of the oldschool PC elite scenes back in the BBS days. Find out how they came to prominence and take a look at all their old information files and insider documents.\r\n<p></p>', NULL, '2005-08-02 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 00:58:34', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-08-02 00:58:34', 601, 0),
(134, '24 New Cracktros and Installers', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/class-orcus_install.png" alt="Class installer" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" />A large  update today. We have <em><strong>24 new cracktros and installers</strong></em> (mainly by Class) for you to view and download. Most of these were taken from the <a href="http://www.maktone.tk">Maktone cracktro and installer packs</a>. You can <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=134&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm">view all the new files here</a>, enjoy.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWe have also added a new a <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=134&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm?type=installer">new filtering option</a> for the cracktros so only the installers are displayed.', NULL, '2005-08-08 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 00:42:27', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-08-08 00:42:27', 1015, 0),
(135, 'New Crack-intros, magazines and documents for the archive', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/deviancetro2.png" alt="Deviance installer" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 160px; height: 120px;" />We have a good update today with a bit of variety. Firstly we have 17 new cracktros and installers. <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=135&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm?type=all">You can download the new files here</a>.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThen we have a number of new magazine issues thanks to the one time editor of Relativity magazine, MuadDib. We now offer the complete collection of <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=135&url=http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=Relativity">Relativity</a>, plus all the source code to every issue (which is now public domain). We also have a couple of new magazines series, <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=135&url=http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=Cybermail">Cybermail</a> and <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=135&url=http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=Classic%20Old%20Warez">Classic Old Warez</a>. And we have missing issues for <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=135&url=http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=The%20Gamers%20Edge">The Gamers Edge</a> and <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=135&url=http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=Future%20Scene%20News">Future Scene News</a>.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAlso we have moved all the group and scene ''web page archives'' from the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=135&url=http://www.defacto2.net/documents.cfm">documents section</a> into the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=135&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups.cfm">group repository</a>. While in addition we have added some new text documents, including a couple of oldschool BBS number lists and the official document for ''The Faction''.', 'We have a good update today with a bit of variety. Firstly we have 17 new cracktros and installers. Then we have a number of new magazine issues thanks to the one time editor of Relativity magazine, MuadDib. We now offer the complete collection of Relativity plus a few new magazine issues and series. And finally we also have some new text documents and archived websites.', '2005-08-30 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:52:46', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-08-30 06:52:46', 2615, 0),
(136, 'Kazaa Found To Be Guilty', 'SHARMAN Networks chief executive Nikki Hemming wasn''t in court to see the music industry deliver its body blow to file sharing, but there''s no doubt Justice Wilcox''s ruling on the Kazaa peer-to-peer network is a major win for the big record companies.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIt was quickly clear to those crowding court 21C in Sydney''s Queen''s Square complex that the judgment represented a victory for the record labels, which have been fighting peer-to-peer around the world.\r\n<p></p>\r\nJustice Wilcox found the respondents - Sharman Networks, management company LEF Interactive, chief executive Nicola Anne Hemming, business partners Brilliant Digital Entertainment and Altnet, and BDE chief executive Kevin Glenn Bermeister - had authorised copyright infringement.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThey have been given two months to install filters to stop traffic in pirated tracks on their system, and face a large damages bill, to be assessed at a later hearing.', 'SHARMAN Networks chief executive Nikki Hemming wasn''t in court to see the music industry deliver its body blow to file sharing, but there''s no doubt Justice Wilcox''s ruling on the Kazaa peer-to-peer network is a major win for the big record companies.', '2005-09-05 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 18:54:31', 'Simon Hayes and wires', 'The Australian', 'http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16502386%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html', 0, 0, '2005-09-05 18:54:31', 526, 0),
(137, 'Drink or Die Extradition Decision', 'A LEGAL AID solicitor representing a NSW man who may soon face software piracy charges in the US has called for Australia''s extradition laws to be reviewed.\r\n<p></p>\r\nNSW Legal Aid solicitor Antony Townsden said it was "morally repugnant" to have any national jurisdiction take precedence over another''s in matters involving crimes that may have been committed on the internet.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"These matters transcend national boundaries and we should not be slave to those boundaries when it comes to prosecuting.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"We should consider the possibility of prosecuting in our own country first."\r\n<p></p>\r\nMr Townsden''s client, Hew Raymond Griffiths, has been accused of leading an organised internet piracy gang.\r\n<p></p>\r\nLast Friday he lost a High Court bid for special leave to appeal against his extradition to the US.', 'A LEGAL AID solicitor representing a NSW man who may soon face software piracy charges in the US has called for Australia''s extradition laws to be reviewed. NSW Legal Aid solicitor Antony Townsden said it was morally repugnant to have any national jurisdiction take precedence over another''s in matters involving crimes that may have been committed on the internet. These matters transcend national boundaries and we should not be slave to those boundaries when it comes to prosecuting.', '2005-09-05 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:29:14', 'Andrew Colley', 'The Australian', 'http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/sectionindex1/0,5745,au_weird%5E%5ETEXT,00.html', 0, 0, '2005-09-05 19:29:13', 587, 0),
(138, '80+ New Cracktros and Installers', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/technic-4-03.png" alt="Technic installer" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 160px; height: 283px;" />We bring you a massive update today with around <em><strong>80+ new modern cracktros and installers</strong></em> for you to play with.\r\nYou can <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=138&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm?type=all&List=submit">browse all the new files here</a>, enjoy. We must thank irokos from TiTAN for donating most of these files to us.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWe have updated the cracktro database application and introduced a couple of new features.\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Removed all the entries that had no file to download (missing), so now when the application says <i>''We have 551 cracktros in total''</i> it means there is 551 files that you can download!</li>\r\n<li>Added an graphical icon system to represent the files attributes replacing the old text system</li>\r\n<li>Added an automated highlight feature for groups and individuals who have more then 10 cracktros stored in the database.</li>\r\n</ul>', 'We bring you a massive update today with around 80+ new modern cracktros and installers for you to play with. We must thank irokos from TiTAN for donating most of these files to us.', '2005-09-15 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:56:57', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-09-15 19:56:57', 1477, 0),
(139, 'sdfsdf', 'dfggfdgd', NULL, '2005-09-16 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 22:30:51', 'sdfsfs', 'sdfsd', 'sdffsdfs', 0, -1, '2005-09-16 22:30:51', 0, 0),
(140, 'Software pirate to pay US$1.1 million', 'An admitted counterfeiter has agreed to pay Microsoft and Symantec US$1.1 million in restitution, a victory in the software industry''s fight against software piracy.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe award is part of a plea agreement in a criminal software piracy case in Houston, Symantec said on Tuesday. The case came to court after a yearlong investigation by the Houston police and the FBI into the activities of Li Chen, who was found to have 5,100 copies of counterfeit Symantec software at his Houston business, Symantec said.\r\n<p></p>\r\nChen pled guilty to one count of trademark infringement and agreed to pay Symantec US$1,005,000 in restitution, the Cupertino, California, software maker said. Microsoft is to get US$95,000, according to a copy of the agreement, which was signed on August 29.', 'An admitted counterfeiter has agreed to pay Microsoft and Symantec US$1.1 million in restitution, a victory in the software industry''s fight against software piracy.', '2005-09-29 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:18:55', 'Joris Evers', 'ZDnet Australia', 'http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Software_pirate_to_pay_US_1_1_million/0,2000061733,39214951,00.htm', 0, 0, '2005-09-29 03:18:55', 564, 0),
(141, 'Farewell (c) Myth', 'Normally we do not cover group news or scene gossip. But as this news has been sent in to us by various people over the last couple of days.. Myth the famous ripping and cracking group has called it quits.\r\n<p class="italic">\r\n     A group built off the ashes of two others. Two top groups putting \r\n     aside their differences to merge and make something brilliant. The \r\n     first title we put out was C&C TS - FIRESTORM *STANDALONE* back in \r\n     2000. The amount of major titles since then is unbelieveable, regardless \r\n     of what some people may try to get you to think. Unlike our competitors \r\n     egos did not make us decide to call it quits. A dying rip scene and a \r\n     dying scene all together made this choice for us.</p>', 'Normally we do not cover group news or scene gossip. But as this news has been sent in to us by various people over the last couple of days.. Myth the famous ripping and cracking group has called it quits.', '2005-10-11 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 19:54:05', 'Ipggi', NULL, 'http://www.defacto2.net/downloads/myt-far.zip', 0, 0, '2005-10-11 19:54:05', 1330, 0),
(142, 'Old School Scene Archives Update!', 'If you are into old school then today your prays have been answered. Thanks to some kind people on a classic games IRC channels we have managed to obtain a heap of new pre-1995 cracktros, nfos, text files and installers.\r\n<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/kgb-86.png" alt="KGB cracktro" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 300px; height: 200px;" />\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=142&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm?type=all">cracktros</a> number nearly 50. They are all for DOS and some are over 19 years old, ancient when you are talking about the PC scene.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWe have also updated the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=142&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups.cfm">group repository</a>, it is now more intuitive, plus there are now 24 new groups added. They all pre-date 1992 with some going back to 1986! And while we were at it we also updated the information to a number existing groups. So we urge you to go check out some legendary groups like <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=142&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=thg">The Humble Guys</a>, <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=142&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=tdt">The Dream Team</a>, <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=142&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=trsi">TRSI</a>, <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=142&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=five-o">Five-0</a> and <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=142&url=http://www.defacto2.net/groups-detail.cfm?org=pe">Public Enemy</a>.\r\n<p></p>\r\nYou may also have noticed we have added two new dialogs on the front page of the site. The first just shows some general statistics of what is being served. While the second is the ''File Packs'' dialog. So from now on it will be easier for you to obtain all the newest file packs on offer and to see which ones have been recently updated. And if that wasn''t enough we also have added an  <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=142&url=http://www.defacto2.net/rss-intro.cfm">File Pack RSS feed</a>, just so you can be notified ASAP when one is updated.\r\n<p></p>\r\nEnjoy ..', 'We have an old school update for The Scene Archives today. Nearly 50 new DOS cracktros from 1986-1995. Plus 24 new groups in the Repository, all from the pre-1992 era. Including The Humble Guys, The Dream Team and Public Enemy.', '2005-10-14 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 00:47:03', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-10-14 00:47:03', 4446, 5),
(143, 'Poll number 1 Results!', 'Well the results are in and the winner of the first poll, "During their time on the scene which cd-rip group had the biggest impact?". Is by a very narrow margin ..<p></p>\r\nRazor 1911, which took in 23% of the votes. Coming a very close second with one less vote was Myth.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIt was also good to see that the long time inactive old school group Hybrid scored a high number of votes. As did the group who I thought deserved to win, Class.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWell thats it for now, don''t forget to vote on our new poll, "What was your all time favorite scene magazine?".', 'Well the results are in and the winner of the first poll, by a very narrow margin is Razor 1911. Which took in 23% of the votes.', '2005-12-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 21:05:59', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2005-12-07 21:05:59', 67, 0);
INSERT INTO `thescenenews` (`id`, `Title`, `Description`, `Summary`, `Date`, `Time`, `Author`, `Source`, `SourceLink`, `Defacto2News`, `Hide`, `OBCTime`, `Views`, `Rating`) VALUES
(144, 'Novalogic Caught Warez-Handed', 'It seems Novalogic, the developers of titles well-known titles Joint Operations and Delta Force. Have been caught using illegal copies of software from a number of large companies. Read on..\r\n<p></p>\r\nNovaLogic probably got bored developing games and thought to spice up its life. The employees must''ve tried many things and ran out of ideas, so they gave a call to those nice guys at Business Software Alliance, hoping they would provide some sort of solution. And that''s all the BSA was waiting for. They came, they saw NovaLogic was using unlicensed copies of Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, FileMaker, Macromedia, Microsoft and Symantec software on its computers and fined it $153,500. Of course, they also made NovaLogic cry in public..', 'It seems Novalogic, the developers of titles well-known titles Joint Operations and Delta Force. Have been caught using illegal copies of software from a number of large companies.', '2005-12-12 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:48:13', NULL, 'Playfuls', 'http://www.playfuls.com/news_4193_NovaLogic_Caught_Warez_Handed.html', 0, 0, '2005-12-12 06:48:13', 1021, 0),
(145, 'ISO Image and Cracktro Pack Update', 'Today we have updated the ISO image. It now comes in a near 500meg download and is now completely synched with the offerings on the website.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe Cracktro Pack has also been updated and this too is now synched with the website.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWe are also looking for someone to host a permanent Torrent seed for the ISO image. Hosting not just a link but the actual file too. If you think you can help please get in touch with us.', 'Today we have updated the ISO image. It now comes in a near 500meg download. It is now completely synched with the offerings on the website. The Cracktro Pack has also been update and this too is now synched with the website. We are also looking for someone to host a perminate Torrent seed for the ISO image. Hosting not just a perminate link but the file too. If you think you can help us please get in touch with us.', '2006-01-05 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 23:07:05', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2006-01-05 23:07:05', 94, 0),
(146, 'Doplgnger Admits Role in Piracy', 'Kevin J. O''Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that I-CHE LAI, also known as "doplgnger," age 25, of Las Vegas, Nevada, waived indictment and pleaded guilty today..\r\n<p></p>\r\nn pleading guilty today, LAI admitted that, between September 2002 and April 2004, he was a participant in the "warez scene," an underground online community comprised of individuals and organized groups who engage in the large scale reproduction, modification and distribution of copywrighted software over the internet. Specifically, LAI served as a site-administrator for several warez sites, including "Kalisto-drop," "Firewire," "Optical Illusion," and "DOH." As a site-administrator for these warez FTP servers, LAI assisted in the maintenance, and day-to-day operation of the warez site.', 'Kevin J. O''Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that I-CHE LAI, also known as "doplgnger," age 25, of Las Vegas, Nevada, waived indictment and pleaded guilty today..', '2006-01-12 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 01:00:14', 'Department of Justice', 'Department of Justice', 'http://communitydispatch.com/artman/publish/article_3391.shtml', 0, 0, '2006-01-12 01:00:14', 579, 0),
(147, 'Latest Voting Results', 'Well the latest voting results are in and according to you guys the best magazine of all time was Netmonkey Weekly Report. It won by a long shot yet this result is not really surprising. Yet again this proves why democracy doesn''t work! :)\r\n<p></p>\r\nComing in at second was a more deserving SceneLink. These guys not only pioneered a new medium for scene, but also created a professional and well polished publication. The same can not be said for the above winner.\r\n<p></p>\r\nReality Check Network came in a very close third and our own old magazine Defacto2 came in at 5th.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThanks for all those who voted and don''t forget to vote on our current poll, ''What was your favourite scene game review publication.''. This poll was requested by Ionizer who thought his old magazine should have been included in the last poll :P', 'Well the latest voting results are in and according to you guys the best magazine of all time was Netmonkey Weekly Report. It won by a long shot yet this result is not really surprising. Yet again this proves why democracy doesn''t work!', '2006-01-20 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:38:56', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2006-01-20 07:38:56', 69, 0),
(148, 'Pitbull (fmr Razor 1911 leader) Talks About His Arrest & Jail Time', 'Shane "Pitbull" Pitman, the former Razor 1911 leader who was arrested in 2003 has gone public about his personal experiences of the past couple of years. In a public forum he talks about numerous topics including details about his arrest. Life while while in jail, his thoughts of his time active on the scene and even the idea of writing a book about his life with Razor 1911.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe forum thread was done nearly a year ago and I am disappointed we did not find out about it until recently. But it comes out at 33 pages so instead of posting a direct link to the forum topic. We have filtered out all of Pitbull''s comments and responses and posted them on an easy to read Q&A formatted page.\r\n<p class="italic">\r\n"I was at work and my phone rang. It was an FBI agent telling me that they were at my house with a warrant and that I needed to come let them in immediately or they''d let themselves in via the boot to the door method. So, I drove home to find 7 or 8 FBI and US Customs vehicles in my driveway and yard. I had to pull in the yard because they had my driveway filled. As soon as my car stopped they surrounded it and as soon as I opened the door to step out one of them grabbed me and pinned me against the car and frisked me. They were all wearing their combat gear, tactical vests with FBI and CUSTOMS in big letters across the back. You''d have thought I was Saddam Hussein or something."</p>', 'Shane "Pitbull" Pitman, the former Razor 1911 leader who was arrested in 2003 has gone public about his personal experiences of the past couple of years. In a public forum he talks about numerous topics including details about his arrest. Life while while in jail, his thoughts of his time active on the scene and even the idea of writing a book about his life with Razor 1911.', '2006-01-20 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:44:03', 'Ipggi', NULL, 'http://www.defacto2.net/groups/razor1911/pitbull.htm', 0, 0, '2006-01-20 07:44:03', 1623, 4),
(149, 'European Raids: Reloaded Targetted', 'At approximately 10 AM, local police in a wide spread coordinated effort raided over 300 homes and offices associated with top warez providers. The raids took place in Germany, Austria, Holland, Poland and the Czech Republic. According to GVU (translated to German Federation Against Copyright Theft), over 30 individuals were arrested in the raids.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe raids also yielded over 20 servers, which provided FTP (File Transfer Protocol) access to individuals belonging to the release groups. GVU claims the warez groups were responsible for the proliferation "of illegal copies of films, computer games, music and user software." The enforcement raids were the culmination of the GVU''s investigative efforts, with legal follow-through provided by the prosecutor''s offices in Duesseldorf and Frankfurt.\r\n<p></p>\r\nRumors of the bust began circulating online today, as members attempted to warn each other. According to warning notices online, the following top providers have, for all intents and purposes, been eliminated; RELOADED, KNIGHTS, TFCiSO, Cinemaniacs, German-Friend, ParadieseBeach and Klapsmuehle. In addition, the leader of RELOADED was reported as arrested during the raids. It should be noted however, the GVU has not confirmed the closure or arrest of anyone associated with RELOADED.', 'Rumors of the bust began circulating online today, as members attempted to warn each other. According to warning notices online, the following top providers have, for all intents and purposes, been eliminated; RELOADED, KNIGHTS, TFCiSO, Cinemaniacs, German-Friend, ParadieseBeach and Klapsmuehle. In addition, the leader of RELOADED was reported as arrested during the raids. It should be noted however, the GVU has not confirmed the closure or arrest of anyone associated with RELOADED.', '2006-01-25 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 00:46:27', 'Thomas Mennecke', 'Slyck', 'http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1065', 0, 0, '2006-01-25 00:46:27', 801, 0),
(150, 'Hackrat (former DOD) learns ''Ignorance of the Law is no defense''', 'Hackrat a former Drink or Die member who was busted in the famous Operation Buccaneer of 2001 has since his release turned into an anti-warez, pro-education and eithics campainer.\r\n<p></p>\r\nHis site, <a href="http://s111472128.onlinehome.us">NetMonkey</a> has been up for a couple of years now.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<i>Here on the Internet, our modus operandion is to educate in a fun and interesting way, the virtues of Cyber Ethics. Relying on the experiences of former software pirates and hackers, Net Monkey attempts to spread the ethical ideals of what is right and wrong, the consequences of our actions, and how to legally enjoying the vast wealth of distributed content on the Internet (while staying out of prisonImage).</i>\r\n<p></p>\r\nHe has also done a recent interview with a university newspaper about his arrest, how he got involved and how he claims he was ignorant of his crimes.\r\n<p></p>\r\n<i>"I had to find out the hard way. Copyright infringement IS a big deal. No one told me what I was doing was wrong. I didn''t think I was breaking the law. But I was and I''m paying the price. I tell every kid I meet: Ignorance of the law is no defense!"</i>', 'Hackrat a former Drink or Die member who was busted in the famous Operation Buccaneer of 2001 has since his release turned into an anti-warez, pro-education and eithics campainer. He has also done a recent interview with a university newspaper about his arrest, how he got involved and how he claims he was ignorant of his crimes.', '2006-01-26 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 21:52:35', 'Ipggi', 'Northern Iowan News', 'http://fp.uni.edu/northia/article2.asp?ID=4337&SECTION=1', 0, 0, '2006-01-26 21:52:35', 630, 0),
(151, '''MindCandy Volume 1: PC Demos'' DVD currently discounted', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/amazon/B00007M4IB.01._AA_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" alt="KGB cracktro" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px;" /> Amazon are currently offering an 11%  discount on this great professional DVD set.\r\n<p></p>\r\nHighly praised throughout the scene, MindCandy is great lounge room visual eye-candy entertainment showing selected works of both the new and the oldskool demo scenes. Two DVD''s worth of demos recorded into DVD video format at only $15.99. Here at Defacto2 we think this is a great deal! Shame we already own our own copies.', 'Amazon are currently offering an 11%  discount on this great professional DVD set. Highly praised throughout the scene, MindCandy is great lounge room candy entertainment showing selected works of both the new and the oldskool demo scenes. Two DVD''s worth of demos recorded into DVD video format at only $15.99. Here at Defacto2 we think this is a great deal! Shame we already own our own copies.', '2006-01-30 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:49:15', 'Ipggi', 'Amazon', 'http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?path=ASIN/B00007M4IB&link_code=as2&camp=1789&tag=defacto2&creative=9325', 0, 0, '2006-01-30 07:49:15', 605, 0),
(152, '19 former RISCISO members indicted plus 2 international extraditions', 'CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted 19 people on charges they used the Internet to pirate more than $6.5 million worth of copyrighted computer software, games and movies. \r\n<p></p>\r\nThe indictment outlines an alleged plot by defendants from nine states, Australia and Barbados to illegally distribute newly released titles, including movies like "The Incredibles" and "The Aviator," and games like "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005."\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe defendants, many of whom worked in high-tech jobs, were members of "RISCISO," a "warez" community founded in 1993, according to the indictment. Warez groups are underground associations that use the Internet to illegally distribute copyrighted software.', 'A federal grand jury has indicted 19 people on charges they used the Internet to pirate more than $6.5 million worth of copyrighted computer software, games and movies. The indictment outlines an alleged plot by defendants from nine states, Australia and Barbados to illegally distribute newly released titles, including movies like "The Incredibles" and "The Aviator," and games like "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005."', '2006-02-02 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 03:24:05', 'Megan Reichgott', 'Associated Press', 'http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060201/ap_on_hi_te/software_piracy;_ylt=Ap31tkoLLZhIz.lkBTLbyJAh2.cA;_ylu=X3oDMTA4ZnRnZjhkBHNlYwMxNjk1', 0, 0, '2006-02-02 03:24:04', 596, 0),
(153, 'Former RISCISO leader faces deportation to the US', 'Australian police working with the FBI have swooped on the home of a 26-year-old Perth (Western Australian) man who US authorities say is the ringleader of an international underground piracy ring.\r\n<p></p>\r\nSean O''Toole is alleged to be the leader of a secretive piracy group called RISCISO that the USDJ claims $US 6.5 million worth of stolen copyrighted software, games and movies online.\r\n<p></p>\r\nA spokesman for the Australian Federal Police said officers acting on an FBI request had raided a Mt Pleasant home on Jun 29 last year, seizing computers and documents which were still being analysed.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe spokesman said no charges had been laid in Australia. But Mr O''Toole, who has been indicted in the US on a charge of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, faces upto five years jail, a $US250,000 fine plus a possible million-dollar restitution claim, if convicted.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe West Australian contacted Mr O''Toole''s parents at their Mt Pleasant home. His mother said her son was being victimised by US authorities but would not comment further.\r\n<p></p>\r\nUSJD official Patrick Fitzpatrick, in Chicago, said Mr O''Toole was among 19 people from more than 10 countries indicted.\r\n<p></p>\r\nMr Fitzpatrick said the group was not motivated by profit but created an online library for a restricted number of people to access, containing thousands of titles and software - enough to fill 23,000 compact discs.', 'Australian police working with the FBI have swooped on the home of a 26-year-old Perth (Western Australian) man who US authorities say is the ringleader of an international underground piracy ring.', '2006-02-02 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 20:31:56', 'Sam Riley', 'The West Australian', 'http://www.thewest.com.au', 0, 0, '2006-02-02 20:31:56', 838, 0),
(154, 'Website News & Poll Results', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/cod2-deviance.png" alt="Deviance cracktro" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px; width: 300px; height: 200px;" />\r\nFirstly we have added a few more <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=154&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros-detail.cfm?type=all&List=submit">cracktros to the database</a> as well as a number of Kaos installers. Thanks to all the people who uploaded these using our new <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=154&url=http://www.defacto2.net/site-upload.cfm">upload form</a>.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAlso we are pleased to announce that the databases we use have been given a tune-up. You should notice that once resource hungry areas of the site (such as browsing the cracktros) are now a lot quicker and more responsive. In addition we have down-converted all the cracktro screenshots to 8bit 256 colour PNG images. This will make them smaller and thus quicker to download.\r\n<p></p>\r\nFinally our <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=154&url=http://www.defacto2.net/poll-comments.cfm?poll=3">3rd poll</a> (''What was your favourite scene game review publication?'') is closed. Not suprisingly game-over.net won it easily while The Gamers Edge came in second. Surprisingly Ionizer''s The Game Review came in a dead last. Maybe most people are too young to remember it or maybe you guys simply are not fans of text based publications?\r\n<p></p>\r\nAnyway don''t forget to vote on our current poll, "Which would have been the best PC scene to be a part of during their heyday"?', 'There are a few new cracktros and installers in the cracktro database. The Defacto2 database system has been tuned up to give fast results. Our 3rd poll is now closed, what was your favourite scene game review publication? The winner was game-over.net.', '2006-02-21 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 20:16:27', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2006-02-21 20:16:27', 1414, 0),
(155, 'RISCISO Leader AWOL', 'US authorities are hunting accused Australian internet piracy kingpin Sean Patrick O''Toole after he failed to appear in an American court.\r\n<p></p>\r\nUS District Court Judge Amy St Eve issued a warrant for the arrest of the 26-year-old from Perth, who is facing a possible jail sentence for piracy.\r\n<p></p>\r\nAmerican authorities were unsure whether O''Toole is in Australia, the US or another part of the world and were examining border records to check if he has entered the US.\r\n<p></p>\r\nO''Toole''s American lawyer, Mary Cay Marubio, said she did not know where he was and was as surprised as prosecutors when he did not appear in court.\r\n<p></p>\r\n"He did not show up," assistant US district attorney Pravin Rao, who is prosecuting the case, told AAP.', 'US authorities are hunting accused Australian internet piracy kingpin Sean Patrick O''Toole after he failed to appear in an American court. US District Court Judge Amy St Eve issued a warrant for the arrest of the 26-year-old from Perth, who is facing a possible jail sentence for piracy.', '2006-02-25 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 00:44:02', NULL, 'The Age', 'http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/US-hunts-accused-Aussie-internet-pirate/2006/02/23/1140563884153.html', 0, 0, '2006-02-25 00:44:02', 846, 0),
(156, 'Scene.org 2005 Awards', 'The nominees for this years Scene.org awards have been announced.\n<p></p>\nScene.org is the worlds premier resource for demos and code. For a number of years now a select panel of judges have gotten together to vote and award the years best productions.\n<p></p>\nFairlight have a huge seven productions nominated including two for best 64k intro. \n<p></p>\nI highly recommend that you guys check out the 4K and 64K section and see why most cracktros often pale in comparison.\n<p></p>\n<a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=156&amp;url=http://breakpoint.untergrund.net">\n<img src="http://breakpoint.untergrund.net/gfx/bp06banner420x60.gif" alt="Breakpoint''06" style="border:0px;" /></a>', 'The nominees for this years Scene.org awards have been announced. Scene.org is the worlds premier resource for demos and code. For a number of years now a select panel of judges have gotten together to vote and award the years best productions.', '2006-03-02 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 05:17:52', 'Ipggi', 'Scene.org', 'http://awards.scene.org/nominees.php?year=2005', 0, 0, '2006-03-02 05:17:52', 1958, 0),
(157, 'Poll Results and New Site Features', 'A few site updates today, all technical though.\r\n<p></p>\r\nFirstly we have updated our web feed applications. The new system is modular making it easier for us in the future to add new feeds or formats. The existing feed links will be automatically forwarded to the new urls, but we recommend that you update to the new links if your reader does not do this automatically. We hope the move does not inconvenience anyone.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWhile we are on the topic of feeds, we have added a new cracktro feed. Now you can be informed as soon as a new tro is added to our database. Some basic information and a screen shot will also be included in the feed.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWe have also felt it was about time someone made a proper list of scene related RSS feeds. So now on The Scene Portal we have done just that. Websites can not only have their URL listed but now can also have a link to their RSS and Atom feeds.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe broken NFo file pack links have now been fixed.\r\n<p></p>\r\nWe have implemented a new anti-leech system. This should stop web sites directly linking to files on the server. If this system is causing anyone any problems please let us know so we can trouble shoot the problem.\r\n<p></p>\r\nFinally the last poll was closed. <i>Which would have been the best PC scene to be apart of during their heyday?</i> It was surprisingly very close, with both the current and the RIP scenes being neck and neck. Eventually though the rip scene won out. What seemed clear though was that not many people thought the period between 1999-2003 was all that exciting.', NULL, '2006-04-01 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:12:38', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2006-04-01 06:12:38', 251, 0),
(158, 'Bandido ex-DOD leader''s fate in politician''s hand', '<img src="http://australianit.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,1658,5137945,00.jpg" alt="Bandido" style="float:right;margin-bottom:15px;margin-left:5px;padding:1px;border:1px solid #000000;" />\nTHE pen of Justice Minister Chris Ellison is the only thing stopping Hew Raymond Griffiths being outfitted with an orange jumpsuit and ankle chains.\n<p></p>\nHew Raymond Griffiths\nSuspect: Hew Raymond Griffiths\nOn his desk is a paper that will decide whether the NSW Central Coast man is extradited to the US, where he faces up to 10 years'' jail and a $US500,000 ($686,000) fine for copyright piracy.\n<p></p>\nMr Griffiths, 43, of Berkeley Vale, has never been to the US, but he''s in big trouble over there.\n<p></p>\nBack in 2003 a grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted him on copyright infringement charges over his alleged involvement in the notorious DrinkorDie piracy ring.\n<p></p>\nThe US alleges Mr Griffiths was Bandido, the co-founder of DrinkorDie, which distributed pirated software, movies and music - and taunted authorities about it - back in the 1990s.\n<p></p>\nThe indictment, drawn up by one of the elite Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Unit teams working within the US Department of Justice, alleged that Mr Griffiths ran the organisation, controlled membership and arranged to reward high-performing members with computer parts.\n<p></p>\nIt also claims he taunted law enforcement in an online interview, claiming: "I cannot be busted, I have no warez here."\n<p></p>\nEven the Americans admit the Griffiths case is something of an experiment.\n<p></p>\nNever before has a foreigner been extradited to face charges of online copyright piracy. ', NULL, '2006-04-11 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:38:33', 'Simon Hayes', 'The Australian', 'http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18775041%5E15302%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html', 0, 0, '2006-04-11 08:38:33', 1406, 0),
(159, 'Scene.org 2005 Awards Announced', 'The Scene.org Awards for 2005 were announced at the recent Breakpoint party held over the easter period in Germany.\r\n<p></p>\r\nBest demo for 2005 was awarded to MFX for Aether.\r\n<p></p>\r\nBest 64k for 2005 was given to Fairlight for Che Guevara. Fairlight also picked up Best Demo on an Oldskool Platform for their C64 demo, Boogie Factor.\r\n<p></p>\r\nYou might also want to check out Fairlight''s newest intro, <i>Meet The Family</i>, which won first place at the Breakpoint competition.', NULL, '2006-04-19 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 22:03:43', 'Ipggi', 'Scene.org', 'http://awards.scene.org/awards.php?year=2005', 0, 0, '2006-04-19 22:03:43', 1495, 0),
(160, 'Defacto2 Celebrates 10 Years!', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/magazine-scenes/defacto2.gif" alt="Original Defacto Magazine" style="float : right; margin-bottom : 15px; margin-left : 5px;" />\nHappy birthday to us, happy birthday to us, happy birthday dear Defacto, happy birthday day to us!\n<p></p>\nWell today Defacto2 celebrates it''s 10th anniversary. It was ten years ago on this day that we publically released our first production, an <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/blog-count.cfm?id=160&amp;url=http://www.defacto2.net/magazines-detail.cfm?title=Defacto">oldschool DOS diskmag</a> that covered the old PC pirate scene back when CD-RIP''s were king.\n<p></p>\nTimes have changed, and so have we. But we are still alive and kicking, giving you the great site you see today.\n<p></p>\nWe would like to thank everyone who has helped out over the years and to the former members who have contributed to our many projects over the years. Including two magazines, an art group and a scene blog (before blogs were fashionable).\n<p></p>\nHere is to another 10 years!', NULL, '2006-04-23 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:50:00', 'Ipggi', 'Defacto2', 'http://www.defacto2.net/help-siteinfo.cfm', 0, 0, '2006-04-23 06:50:00', 1354, 0),
(161, 'Warez Law and the War', 'Eric Goldman lecturer and author of a number of articles involving criminal copyright infringement and warez trading has started his own <i>technology and marketing law blog</i>.\n<p></p>\nHis works such as Warez Trading and Criminal Copyright Infringement, The Challenges of Regulating Warez Trading and \nCritique of the No Electronic Theft Act are some of the better researched publications floating around the net.\n<p></p>\nHe claims he will have more to say on the topic at a later date.\n<p></p><i>\nSo criminal copyright infringement has a low capacity to deter warez traders. As a result, the official government response has been to bust and lock up warez traders one-by-one. Basically, the government is fighting a war of attrition. The consequence is that about 120 United States warez traders have been convicted or pleaded guilty, with a few more internationally.\n</i><p></p><i>\nBut wars of attrition are costly. The government incurs significant enforcement costs, the traders prosecuted incur significant personal costs (possibly beyond the culpability of their behavior), and other people may be chilled from socially-beneficial non-infringing copying by the fear of being busted next.\n</i><p></p><i>\nWorse, I think the war of attrition is ultimately unwinnable. I think that, so long as digital assets are scarce and risky, there will continue to be people who will be attracted to the trading of such assets--even if we successfully busted every single warez trader currently in the scene.</i>', NULL, '2006-05-10 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:08:56', 'Ipggi', 'Eric Goldman', 'http://blog.ericgoldman.org/', 0, 0, '2006-05-10 06:08:56', 1130, 0),
(162, 'Worldcharts, who are you choosing?', '<table width="100%" border="0" style="height:297px;font-size:13px;"><tr><td style="background-image:url(images/misc/worldcharts.gif);">\nScoopex, Fairlight and Deviance are getting together to create a new charts magazine.\nPeople can vote for not only their favorite C64, Amiga and PC groups, but also their favorite warez.\nThe magazine will be released as a coded production for the Amiga and the PC.\n<p>\nSo if you have an urge to vote, you can registered at <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=162&url=http://worldcharts.untergrund.net/">\ntheir web site</a>.\n</p>\n</td></tr></table>', NULL, '2006-05-15 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 05:56:58', 'Ipggi', 'Worldcharts', 'http://worldcharts.untergrund.net/', 0, 0, '2006-05-15 05:56:57', 1325, 0),
(163, 'MPAA Busts Various VCD Sites', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/mpaa.png" alt="MPAA" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:15px;" />"<em>FBI brings you another busts today\r\n<p></p>\r\nAnother summer starts with an another bust. Seems like this is starting to\r\n  happen every year now.\r\n<p></p>\r\n  Today somewhere around 9am F.B.I. officers took down 7-8 boxes from LT,\r\n  following with an another bust @ datacenter of servermatrix located in\r\n  Texas.\r\n<p></p>\r\n  At the moment seems like 4 sites have been taken completely down by feds,\r\n  and several sites has been closed down due to recent happenings. Some sites\r\n  continue to operate as normal.\r\n<p></p>\r\n  According to anonymous *wink* tech person on LT, MPAA caused the busts by\r\n  reporting presites of FLAMES, DiAMOND, SAGA and HAFVCD to LT and FBI\r\n  personnels. Boxes werent taken down by LT, but by the FBI when they came in.\r\n  LT also gave box owners names and addresses and cc details for authorities.\r\n<p></p>\r\n  At the same time FBI raided datacenter of SM and took down 18-20 boxes\r\n  including boxes from 24TB drftpd.\r\n<p></p>\r\n  Affected affils include at least: FLAMES, SAGA, DiAMOND, NBP, F4GC and\r\n  TBE. Theres reports of other affils too, but they''re mostly rumors so\r\n  we dont include them here.\r\n<p></p>\r\n  Now for all groups: Leave the insecure .us colo scene. ANYONE can start\r\n  a site there, and its just matter of time before LT or SM tech notices\r\n  that site running there. They even forbid that on their legal agreement,\r\n  and they take the box offline if they see anything related to warez on\r\n  there. Now its time to act, and make the scene more secure. Finally!\r\n  We saw this last year too, we saw this an year before. And we will see\r\n  this if nobody does anything. Fuck to colos. Fuck to P2P. Keep the scene\r\n  secure.</em>"', NULL, '2006-06-09 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:52:02', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 0, 0, '2006-06-09 08:52:02', 509, 0),
(164, 'US DOJ Exceeded Bush Administration''s Aggressive IP Response', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/usdoj.png" alt="US DOJ logo" style="float:right; margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:15px;" />\r\nFederal authorities have met -- and in some cases exceeded -- the goals set out for them two years ago when the Bush administration ordered a more aggressive response to intellectual property crimes, the Department of Justice is set to announce in a progress report Tuesday.\r\n<p></p>\r\nUnder the leadership of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the Justice Department said it has implemented each of the 31 recommendations made by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in March 2004. Beyond that, authorities said they have taken at least eight additional steps to combat these crimes, which include the counterfeit trading and online piracy of movies, music and video games.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe most immediate and fundamental goal was increasing the number of prosecutors specifically assigned to Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property teams in various cities. The DOJ said that in addition to the five new units called for by Ashcroft it has created an additional seven teams in such cities as Baltimore, Denver, Detroit and Philadelphia.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThere are now more than 230 specially trained prosecutors and coordinators assigned to these DOJ teams, of which there soon will be 25.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe DOJ also has worked to build relationships with law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. and internationally.\r\n<p></p>\r\nThe FBI has increased its undercover operations and coordination with overseas police as well as state and local law enforcement. This has led to a 22% increase, from 304 to 372, in intellectual property investigations from 2003-05 and an 87% increase in undercover investigations.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIn all, the number of individuals prosecuted for these crimes rose 98% last year, from 177 defendants in 2004 to 350, the DOJ said.\r\n<p></p>\r\nDOJ officials said they also have fostered partnerships with piracy victims including the MPAA and RIAA.', NULL, '2006-06-20 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:15:12', 'Jesse Hiestand', 'Hollywood Reporter', 'http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002690755', 0, 0, '2006-06-20 04:15:12', 1226, 0),
(165, 'Assembly 2006 - Less then two weeks to go!', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/assembly06.jpg" alt="Assembly 06" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;border:1px solid black" />One of the scene''s most successful and longest running parties is back for another year. With less then two weeks to go Assembly ''06 in Helsinki, Finland looks to be living up to the success of it''s previous years.<p></p>Tickets are still on sale right up until the event''s start on Thursday 3rd of August. But you better hurry as there are not many computer tickets remaining. The program this year includes your various demo competitions, as well as live music, gaming and sporting competitions, technical seminars and even a nerdish Robowar tournament.', NULL, '2006-07-22 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 06:46:43', 'Ipggi', 'Assembly', 'http://www.assembly.org/2006/news/tickets', 0, 0, '2006-07-22 06:46:43', 1452, 0),
(166, 'Defacto2 site gets a new look', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/siteinfo/df2-small.gif" alt="Defacto2 logo" style="float:right; margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" />You may noticed there is something different about Defacto2 today. Yes we have finally given the site a much needed face lift. While cosmetically it is not all that different, underneath at the code level, everything has been rewritten from scratch. We basically converted what was a massive collection of various dynamic web pages and compiled them into web based applications.\n<p></p>\nThis means that in the future it will be a lot easier for us to add new features as well as to troubleshoot any bugs. The update also gave us a chance to redesign a number of the features, to hopefully make the site easier to use and faster. Of note is the crack-intro section and the on-line NFO browser, both redone. The group repository also now allows file filtering and sorts the groups in a more logical way.\n<p></p>\nWe have also made the site XHTML 1.1 compliant, this means that under modern browsers there should be no random HTML quirks and the like. But to implement this code we had to drop legacy support for the older browsers. We have not tested the site with anything earlier then Internet Explorer 6 and to be honest we can''t imagine it working too well. Though at least the removal of the legacy HTML code speeds up the browsing a bit.\n<p></p>\nIf you are curious, we have tested the site in Internet Explorer 6, Opera 9 and Firefox 1.5. While the site works fine in Internet Explorer 6 it does take longer to render, so if you haven''t considered updating maybe now is the time?\n<p></p>\nHopefully you will all enjoy the new update to the site, and if you run into any problems, bugs (on supported browsers) or errors please let us know. Now that this code update is complete we can go back to updating the content and files of this site. Sorry to everyone who has submitted files and updates that remain unprocessed, we will implement them in the next few weeks.', NULL, '2006-07-22 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:06:12', 'Ipggi', 'Defacto2', 'http://www.defacto2.net', -1, 0, '2006-07-22 07:06:12', 714, 0),
(167, 'Assembly 2006 Results', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/flt2.png" alt="Fairlight" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" />\nWell it seems another Assembly is over and by all reports it was a great success.\n<p></p>\nThe results from the various demo competions are in and not suprisingly the boys at Fairlight scored a number of wins. Not to mention their <em>track one</em> production came in at number two in the prestigious ''Demo competition''.\n<p></p>\nAll the competion productions are now available online for you to download and enjoy at <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=167&amp;url=ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2006/assembly06">ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2006/assembly06</a>.', NULL, '2006-08-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 09:25:33', 'Ipggi', 'ftp://ftp.nebula.assembly.org/asm06/results.txt', 'Assembly 2006', 0, 0, '2006-08-07 09:25:33', 2496, 0),
(168, 'Fairlight''s 20th Anniversary', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/flt2.png" alt="Fairlight" style="float:right; margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" /> Come April next year the boys at Fairlight will be celebrating, for their group will have reached 20 years of age. And whats a better way to celebrate then by holding a party?\n<p></p>\nUnfortunately because the party is limited to 100 places it will not be open to the general public, nor is it free. But those who are interested in attending can sign up at the party web site to reserve a spot. It will be held over a couple of nights in Cophenhagen, Denmark from June 1st till June 3rd.\n<p></p>\nThis will be more of a social gathering rather then a traditional competitive party. So while there will still be limited C64, PC and Amiga demo competitions. They will have to be created before arriving, as guests are asked not to bring their own computers.\n<p></p>\nOf greatest interest to readers of Defacto2 will be the launch of the Fairlight DVDR.\n<p></p><cite>Among other things we are working on a DVDR that will include the story and life of Fairlight, and will be released after the party, since it also will include 100s of pictures and video of the event. So if you got any questions about Fairlight, we are sure that this DVDR will give you the answer and more.</cite>', NULL, '2006-08-22 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:48:00', 'Ipggi', 'Fairlight', 'http://www.pensionistklubben.dk/flt20years/party.htm', 0, 0, '2006-08-22 07:48:00', 1603, 0),
(169, 'Freax - The Art Album Is Now Out', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/freaxart.jpg" alt="freaxart cover" style="float:right; margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" />The guys who published the popular Freax - The Brief History of the Demo Scene are back with a new book, Freax - The Art Album.\n<p></p>\nUnlike their earlier book, this is dedicated to pure eye candy. With over 1,600 pieces of scene art over 286 pages, all in full colour.\n<p></p>\nIncluded are ..<br />\n- Commodore 64 graphics<br />\n- Amiga OCS and AGA graphics<br />\n- ZX Spectrum graphics<br />\n- Atari ST and Falcon graphics<br />\n- Amstrad CPC graphics<br />\n- PC ANSI and ASCII graphics<br />\n- PC 8-bit oldschool graphics<br />\n- PC 24-bit newschool graphics<br />\n- Raytraced pictures<br />\n- Handdrawn Commodore 64 disk covers<br />\n- The infamous ''Cracker Comics'' from the ''80s by Hobbit of Fairlight.\n<p></p>\nAnd any artist who has a piece of art publish in the book, can get a copy of the compilation for free.\n<p></p>\nCurrently the book is only available from <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=169&amp;url=http://go64.siteforum.com/portals/go64/index.html">GO64</a> for 29,95 EUR but other resellers should be stocking it soon.', NULL, '2006-08-22 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 08:08:33', 'Ipggi', 'Freax', 'http://freax.hu/#album', 0, 0, '2006-08-22 08:08:33', 1585, 0),
(170, 'Steal This Film Part 1', 'A new video documentary on the rise of the social and political impact of illegal file sharing is now floating around the various Torrent sites near you. But unlike most films found there, this one is legal to redistribute and uses the P2P Torrent network to their advantage.\n<p></p>\nTitled Steal This Film and running for just over 32 minutes. This wide screen DVD quality documentary is the first part of a greater series that intends to focus on piracy in general.\n<p></p>\nPart one covers the raid on the Swedish based web site, The Pirate Bay. The US governments involvement in the raid and the eventually political backlash that arose including the formation of a new Swedish political party, The Pirate Party.\n<p style="text-align:center;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;" >\n<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/steal.png" alt="Steal This Film"/><br /></p>\nWhile I personally found at times the film dragged on for a little bit. And there were problems some with the various audio levels and synching. I did find it a worth while download and an interesting watch.\n<p></p>\nThough I do find it ironic that the more underground the pirate scene been forced into, the more mainstream the notion of digital piracy has become.', NULL, '2006-08-28 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 10:32:19', 'Ipggi', 'The League of Noble Peers', 'http://stealthisfilm.com/', 0, 0, '2006-08-28 10:32:19', 1443, 0),
(171, 'Calling All The Old Schoolers', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/bitfella.png" alt="BitFellas logo" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" />\nThe guys at Bitfellas are doing a recruitment drive at the moment, old style with a <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=171&amp;url=http://www.defacto2.net/downloads/BitFellas.rar">zipped up ascii invitation</a>.\n<p></p>\nWho are <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=171&amp;url=http://www.bitfellas.org">Bitfellas</a>? Well it''s a scene community web site made up of many people from various scenes. Infact a couple of the administrators go all the way back to the early Commodore 64 cracking scene way back in 1982. Now that is old school!\n<p></p>\n<em>BF is supposed to become a huge scene community offering extended and unique content next to the communication opportunities. Our intention is to offer something for the entire scene of all possible platforms, may it be oldschool or newschool.\nOur intention is to bring people together, to discuss topics, to develop new ideas in order to make the scene a much better place. The content will contain various scene related material such as exclusively and reprinted articles from various scene magazines, party reports, interview section, tutorials, calendar service with all possible scene related dates you can''t afford to miss.\nYou see, this is far more than just another forum.\n</em>\n<p></p>\nSo if you are an old schooler lost in the myriad that is the world wide web. Looking for a place to catchup or to talk about the old days. Or even if your not so old school but are just interested in taking part in new and exciting scene based community (not talking about the current warez scene here) then join up.\n<p></p>\nI am personally a big fan of BitFellas and enjoy the fact it avoids a lot of the pointless bitching you find on other sites. It also has forums for nearly every platform in existance!\n<p></p>\nDon''t worry if you visit the page and are greeted by a login screen, registration is a painless process and you receive automatic access.', NULL, '2006-09-07 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:03:41', 'Ipggi', 'BitFellas', 'http://www.bitfellas.org', 0, 0, '2006-09-07 07:03:41', 3924, 0),
(172, 'New Defacto2 Tweaks and Features', '<p>Well we have been doing a bit of work behind the scenes at Defacto2 in the past couple of months. Tweaking and featuring adding to the site and so we thought it was about time that we let all the readers know about our changes.\n</p><p>\nFirstly we have changed our site search function. Instead of results being redirecting to the Google homepage. Each query is now displayed from within the site. This gives you the familiar Defacto2 interface while still using the power of Google''s engine on the back end.\n</p><p>\n<img src="http://www.digg.com/img/badges/32x32-digg-guy.png" alt="Digg Icon" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" /> The Scene News articles now incorporate Digg It buttons. This means Digg It members can now easily submit or vote on articles and news reports posted on Defacto2.\n</p><p>\n<a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=172&url=http://www.defacto2.net/group.cfm">The Group Repository</a> has received a number of cosmetic updates. We tried to make the repository group file listings easier to browse through and use. In fact if you haven''t gone to the repository in the last few months you might by pleasantly surprised by the number of new groups that have since been added.\n</p><p>\nAnother new feature added to the repository is the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=172&url=http://www.defacto2.net/timeline.cfm">file timeline</a>. This allows you to select a time period and display all the (dated) files hosted on our site, listed in a chronological order that matches the provided date range. Listed are artworks, nfo files, documents, magazines and other various files. Not only are file details displayed but we have also include entries of key scene events in the listings. So if you were looking for files released during a major event then this tool should be able to help out immensely.\n</p><p>\nAlso located in the repository are some new archived web pages from the late 1990''s. Of interest is the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=172&url=http://www.defacto2.net/web.pages/fairlight/index.html">lost Fairlight flash website</a> that never made it into service and a few mirrors of earlier Defacto2 sites going back to 1998.\n</p><p>\nYou may have also noticed we now list the newest added files on the main page. This is linked to a full application that not only allows you to see the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=172&url=http://www.defacto2.net/site-info.cfm?mode=updates&type=new&display=files&List=submit">500 most recent file additions</a>. You can also list file revisions and site additions and changes. Of cause we have also incorporated some new <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=172&url=http://www.defacto2.net/feed.cfm?mode=introduction">web feeds</a> for use with the new files function.\n</p><p>\n<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/youtube.png" alt="YouTube" style="float:right; margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" />The cracktros section has received some minor tweaking. We are now also in the process of video recording selected DOS cracktros that will be hosted on YouTube! We currently have <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=172&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros.cfm?mode=youtube">20 cracktros recorded</a> and the videos are linked directly from the cracktro web page.\n</p><p>\nFinally we have also updated the File Submission page. It has been renamed to <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=172&url=http://www.defacto2.net/site-upload.cfm">Wanted Files & User Submissions</a> and now contains a listing of some of our more needed requests.\n</p>', NULL, '2006-10-10 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 00:58:11', 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, -1, 0, '2006-10-10 00:58:11', 4076, 0),
(173, 'Abandonware Now Legal In The US?', 'The Librarian of Congress, on the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, last week announced the creation of six new copyright exemptions. Two of which directly involve personal computers.\n<p></p>\nJudging from what has been announced. It means that people will be allowed to collect and use cracks on software programs created for hardware that is now obsolete in that it is no longer manufactured or commercially sold.\n<p></p>\nSo essentially any software designed on an obsolete computer, console or even arcade hardware should now be legal for you to possess as long as it isn''t used for commercial purposes. Even games released for the PC on 3.5 or 5.25 inch floppies could be covered under this announcement. Though it seems titles released on PC-CDROM are not, even those DOS ancient games from the early 1990s.\n<p></p>\nWhat will be interesting though is where a title has been re-released onto a current platform. Especially with Nintendo''s Wii, selling exact replicas of old classic titles from earlier now obsolete consoles.\n<p></p>\nExemption 2: <em>Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.</em>\n<p></p>\nExemption 3: <em>Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.</em>\n<p></p>\n', NULL, '2006-11-29 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 07:25:58', 'Ipggi', 'U.S. Copyright Office', 'http://www.copyright.gov/1201/', 0, 0, '2006-11-29 07:25:58', 916, 0);
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(174, 'The Underground Gone Mainstream?', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/inteldemo.png" alt="Intel Demo" style="float:right; margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" />A couple of months ago Intel of Germany ran a small competition known as the Intel Demo Trailer Competition. Whereby various European demo groups were asked to create a trailer using one of 5 supplied musical tracks. The trailers were to be short and so the tunes were only 30 to 40 seconds in length. To keep things fair all the trailers were designed for the same hardware which in this case as an ASUS laptop using an Intel Centrino Duo CPU. The groups were giving about 10 weeks to complete this task for a December 1st deadline. \n<p></p>\nEach of the snippet tracks were produced by <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=174&url=http://www.myspace.com/djhell">DJ Hell</a>, a name that would be familiar for anyone who is into electro or tech-house.  He has been producing and remixing since the early 1990''s and first came to prominence during the electro-clash period of the mid to late 90s. He is the head of his own record label International Deejay Gigolo Records and has done famous dance-floor remixes for a variety of well and lesser-known artists.\n<p></p>\nThe five finalists have recently been announced and their trailers are viewable online. The finalists include ASD from Greece, Conspiracy from Hungary, Farbrausch from Germany, MFX from Finland and Fairlight from the UK.\n<p></p>\nNot surprisingly that Fairlight has caught many of the online user votes and is currently in top position. On the Intel competition website there is even a little biography, a Fairlight logo and examples of their previous works. It''s interesting days indeed and personally I find it a little ironic. That a brand once synonymous with online software piracy is now being freely promoted by a large corporation such as Intel.', NULL, '2006-12-03 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 02:21:23', 'Ipggi', 'Intel', 'http://intel.de/demoscene', 0, 0, '2006-12-03 02:21:23', 1720, 0),
(175, 'Mindcandy Volume 2: Amiga Demos', '<a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=175&url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?path=ASIN/B000LC5AQQ&link_code=as2&camp=1789&tag=defacto2&creative=9325"><img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/mc2.jpg" alt="Mind Candy 2 Banner" style="float:center; margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" /></a>\n<p></p>THE WAIT IS OVER\n<p></p>\nIt has been a long four years since the release of "MindCandy Volume 1: PC\nDemos" for most of you. Your wait for the follow up MindCandy DVD, Amiga\nDemos, is now over. We are now taking orders for MindCandy Volume 2: Amiga\nDemos. As someone on our reservation list you will have a chance to order\nearly--before our media blitz and "official" launch date of 16 January 2007.\n<p></p>\nThis time around we have TWO versions of the DVD to cover the major TV\nstandards: PAL and NTSC. So please be sure to order the correct version for\nyour region. (Hint: US = NTSC, Europe/Australia = PAL)\n<p></p>\nDETAILS\n<p></p>\nThis second volume of MindCandy explores the world of creative real-time animated music videos created to run on the Amiga computer platform. The DVD covers fifteen years of demo evolution with thirty of the best Amiga demos ever created. All demos were captured using the original Amiga hardware. \n<p></p>\nBriefly: 30 Amiga demos (188 mins), 19-minute demographics featurette of a\ndemoparty (Breakpoint 2003), audio commentary, subtitles in English, French,\nand German of demo commentaries, 12-page booklet, original and 5.1 surround\nsound, animated menus, random and jukebox playback modes, a couple hidden\neaster eggs, and more.\n<p></p>\nFull details on this new DVD can be found on our web site: <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=175&url=http://www.mindcandydvd.com">www.mindcandydvd.com</a>', NULL, '2006-12-18 00:00:00', '1899-12-30 04:37:06', 'MindCandy DVD', 'MindCandy DVD', 'http://www.mindcandydvd.com', 0, 0, '2006-12-18 04:37:06', 2115, 0),
(176, 'Defacto2 Database Migration and Upgrade', 'We are finally online after a large database migration to MySQL. Not only did this involve converting the old databases and indexes. But also updating and re-optimising the SQL statements and ColdFusion code source.\n<p></p>\nSo now you should see a very noticeable speed improvement within most areas of the site that are database dependant. This is more pronounced by the fact that the old databases were stored as Access 2000 files. A standard that was initially released during the dot.com boom and was never designed for web use.\n<p></p>\nUnfortunately as with any major web site update there might be the possibility of broken code or newly introduced bugs. If you encounter any major problems, please let us know so we can get onto a fix.', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 1, 0, '2007-01-10 22:46:32', 504, NULL),
(177, 'US DOJ Still Chasing Accused RISCISO Members', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/usdoj.png" alt="US DOJ logo" style="float:right; margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:15px;" />BARBADIAN broadcaster Linda Walrond (57) is not off the hook.\n<p></p>\nThe clock is still ticking on Walrond, who United States (US) law enforcers indicted, along with 18 others nearly a year ago, for allegedly being involved in a $13 million internet piracy ring.\n<p></p>\nHowever, while the charges and an arrest warrant in the US still hang over the head of the Barbadian, American prosecutors are playing very close to their chests.\n<p></p>\nAdditionally, yesterday Attorney General Dale Marshall said there was no truth to a rumour that the US Department of Justice had contacted his office to initiate extradition proceedings against the former radio programme manager of the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation.\n<p></p>\nIt was in early February last year when US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick J. Fitzgerald, and Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Robert D. Grant, announced Walrond and 19 others were indicted on federal charges for pirating copyrighted computer software, games, and movies through non-public Internet sites.\n<p></p>\nSince then most of the accused have been had hearings in the US District Court in Chicago, but the Barbadian and the suspected Australian ring leader Sean O''toole (26) have not.\n<p></p>\nPravin Rao, the Assistant US Attorney prosecuting the case, told the Barbados Advocate there was still a warrant for Walrond and that other accused were scheduled to make court appearances later this month.\n<p></p>\nHe said, however, no contact had been made with her.\n<p></p>\n"There is no new information to report regarding Walrond and O''toole. A number of the defendants in this case have pled guilty and there is a status before the Judge on January 24th for the remaining few," Rao said.\n<p></p>\nThe Attorney General said up to yesterday there were efforts via Government to pursue Walrond, but he said any such undertaking would not be secret.\n<p></p>\n"If an extradition proceeding is to be done it is something that will be done publicly through the courts. You don''t do extraditions in secret, so there is no sense in which anything like that could be done surreptitiously. You would have seen extradition hearings happening in the courts before so there is no reason to think that anything other than that would happen," he said.', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Shawn Cumberbatch', 'Barbados Advocate', 'http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/NewViewNewsleft.cfm?Record=29446', 0, 0, '2007-01-11 17:39:25', 1602, NULL),
(178, 'Contacting Us', 'Just a quick note. If you are going to write an e-mail to us and expect a reply. Please supply us with a valid and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">working</span> reply e-mail address!\n<p></p>\nThe number of times we have been sent e-mails asking questions, us replying and then having the reply bounced back to us is ridiculous.\n<p></p>\nSo to Muhkuh, who wrote to us yesterday and supplied us with an invalid e-mail address. You can upload your file here .. <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=178&amp;url=http://www.defacto2.net/site-upload.cfm">http://www.defacto2.net/site-upload.cfm</a>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 1, 0, '2007-01-31 22:00:10', 1366, NULL),
(179, 'CyberChrist', 'It is my unfortunate duty to report that Paul "CyberChrist" Scigliano passed away on 1/16/07 due to complications from a seizure. CyberChrist was a member in the prestigious was the sysop of the famous 404 Atlanta BBS "SkyNet" and member of the prestigious warez group Razor 1911, Prestige and others. Friends are trying to collect old memorabilia of CyberChrist for a memorial website. If anyone has old TXT, NFOs, stories or other articles that would like to contribute, please email them to me: <span style="text-decoration:underline;">tailgate2@hotmail.com</span>.\n<p></p>\nP.S. - Please do not send the famous <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=179&url=http://www.defacto2.net/documents.cfm?id=195">"fuckdave"/Warchild essay from ''93</a>, as we have already received several copies  :) \n<p></p>\n- Tailgate\n<p style="text-align:center;">\n<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/skynet.png" alt="Skynet Advert" style="float:center;margin-bottom:5px;" /></p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Tailgate', NULL, NULL, 0, 0, '2007-01-31 22:08:00', 2655, NULL),
(180, '''Bandido'', Former DOD Leader Is Finally Arraigned', 'In one of the first ever extraditions for an intellectual property offense, the leader of one of the oldest and most renowned Internet software piracy groups was arraigned today in U.S. District Court, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg for the Eastern District of Virginia announced today.\n<p></p>\nHew Raymond Griffiths, 44, a British national living in Bateau Bay, Australia, appeared today in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., before Magistrate Judge Barry R. Poretz. The defendant was extradited from Australia and is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of criminal copyright infringement. If convicted on both counts, Griffiths could receive a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine. Prior to his arrival in the United States, he had spent nearly three years incarcerated at a detention center in Australia while fighting his extradition in Australian court.\n<p></p>\n"Griffiths claimed to be beyond the reach of U.S. law, and today, we have proven otherwise," said Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher. "This extradition represents the Department of Justice''s commitment to protect intellectual property rights from those who violate our laws from the other side of the globe."\n<p></p>\n"Our agents and prosecutors are working tirelessly to nab intellectual property thieves, even where their crimes transcend international borders," said U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg.', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'PR Newswire', 'PR Newswire', 'http://www5.sys-con.com/read/339748.htm', 0, 0, '2007-02-21 23:32:00', 1802, NULL),
(181, 'New Magazine Added', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/magazine-scenes/DOX.png" alt="The Unbiased Dox Report logo" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" />\nWe have now posted over two years worth of The Nova Team''s (TNT) The -Unbiased- DOX Report for your reading pleasure. They can be found in our </p><a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=182&url=http://www.defacto2.net/magazines.cfm?mode=text">text reports section</a>.<p> Unfortunately we only have the issues between Jan-2005 and Jan-2007. If you have any earlier or later issues could you please <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=181&url=http://www.defacto2.net/site-upload.cfm">send them to us</a>.', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, 'http://www.defacto2.net/magazines.cfm?mode=detail&title=The%20Unbiased%20DOX%20Report', 1, 0, '2007-04-15 09:15:19', 1231, NULL),
(182, '''Bandido'' Pleads Guilty', '<p>On April 20th, Bandido former leader of Drink or Die has pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement charges, in one of the first ever extraditions for an intellectual property offense.\n</p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty before a Eastern District of Virginia U.S. District judge to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of criminal copyright infringement. If convicted on both counts, Griffiths could receive a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a US$500,000 fine.</p>\n<p>\nThe judge has set a sentencing date for June 22, 2007 at 9:00 a.m</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 0, 0, '2007-04-23 19:03:09', 1651, NULL),
(183, 'Operation FastLink body count now totals 50', '<p>Today the US Department of Justice was proud to announce the successful conviction of their 50th criminal arrested and charged under Operation Fastlink.</p><p>Christopher E. Eaves, 31, of Iowa Park, Texas pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. Admitting he had been an active member and supplier for the former pre-release MP3 warez group Apocalypse Crew.</p><p>\nMr Eaves now faces up to five years prison and a $200,000 and a three year supervised release. His sentencing is set for August 10th.</p><p>\nIn addition to the 50 convictions Operation FastLink has netted over 120 search warrants in 12 countries;  the confiscation of hundreds of computers and the removal of more than $50,000,000 dollars worth of illegal goods.</p>\n', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 0, 0, '2007-05-15 07:30:06', 467, NULL),
(184, 'Defacto2 Web-Intro', '<p>Today Defacto2 is proud to publicly release their first production for eight years. A new web-intro that will be included in a number of the file packages that we offer on the website. The oldskool inspired production was created by a new group known as Electric Druggies.\r\n</p><p>\r\nAs you can see from the screenshot the intro looks very snazzy. Comprising of completely new source material, the font, logo and music were all purposely created for this production.\r\n</p><p>\r\nThanks go to Electric Druggies with their very cryptic aliases<br />\r\n- Code and Font by Widow Maker<br />\r\n- Logo by Shadow Maker<br />\r\n- Music by Noise Maker\r\n<p><img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/cracktro-scenes/DEFACTO2ISO-2007.png" alt="Intro Capture" style="margin:5px;" /></p>\r\n<a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=184&url=http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros.cfm?id=829">You can directly download the intro here</a>\r\n<p><span style="color:red;">Update:</span> Feel free to vote for our intro at <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=185&url=http://intro-inferno.com/production.php%3Fid=4152">Intro Inferno</a></p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', 'Defacto2', 'http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros.cfm?mode=file&value=DEFACTO2ISO-2007', 1, 0, '2007-06-13 05:31:32', 2960, NULL),
(185, 'Bandido, Former Drink Or Die Leader is Sentenced to 51 months Jail', '<p>Caught up in the whirlwind following the raids were Australian native Hew Raymond Griffiths. Hew was the administrator, or "ring leader", of DrinkOrDie. For the last three years, Hew has been fighting an extradition to the United States, where the US DOJ wanted him to face trial - or plead guilty - on American soil. The US DOJ got their wish in February, when the Australian government released him into American custody. On April 20th, 2007, Hew plead guilty to criminal copyright infringement charges.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The US DOJ, as do many sources, point out that this is a unique case in the fact that Hew has never laid foot on American soil, nor has he ever committed a crime on US soil, yet was still successfully extradited for his crimes. The US DOJ annunciated this fact in their statement on Friday, reveling in 51 month sentencing of Hew Griffiths.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>So it appears that Hew was not safe on Australian soil, where according to his lawyer the penalties would have been less severe.</p>\r\n<p>\r\n"Effectively my client was sent to face charges in a foreign country where he has no knowledge of the legal system and no friends or family," his lawyer told The Sunday Age. "He has been surrendered to a country where the penalties for such offenses are much harsher."</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The only mitigating circumstance for Hew Griffiths is the US Judge took into consideration his time already served in Australia. Although he was sentenced 51 months, he was granted 3 years already served. According to The Age, he should be out of prison in 15 months. With good behavior, it''s likely he''ll be out sooner than that.</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Thomas Mennecke', 'Slyck News', 'http://www.slyck.com/story1505_DrinkOrDie_Admin_Sentence_51_Months', 0, 0, '2007-06-25 03:51:21', 2135, NULL),
(186, 'Former Kalisto Ripper Fined and Sentanced To Three Years Probation', '<p>Kevin J. O''Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEFFREY LERMAN, also known as "asdgadg," "kall," "ht," and "reg," age 23, of College Park, Maryland, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to three years of probation, the first six months of which LERMAN must serve confined to his home.  Judge Chatigny also ordered LERMAN to pay a fine in the amount of $7500.  On March 8, 2005, LERMAN waived indictment and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.  This matter stems from a multinational software piracy investigation known as "Operation Higher Education."</p><p>In pleading guilty, LERMAN admitted that, between January 2002 and April 2004, he was a participant in the "warez scene," an underground online community consisting of individuals and organized groups who engage in the large scale reproduction, modification and distribution of copyrighted software over the internet.  Specifically, LERMAN was a prominent member of the warez group known as "Kalisto," where he served as a "ripper" for pirated copies of computer games so that each game would fit onto a single CD-ROM.  LERMAN eliminated or circumvented the games'' copy protection controls in order to facilitate the further unauthorized distribution of the games over the internet.  From June 2000 to April 2004, Kalisto was responsible for releasing to the warez scene pirated copies of more than 500 well-known, copyrighted computer games, often before the date of their legitimate commercial release.</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, ' Tom Carson', 'United States Attorney''s Office District of Connecticut', 'http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2007/nh080707.htm', 0, 0, '2007-08-12 06:12:43', 1561, NULL),
(187, 'Kortelio from Fairlight and Kalisto Fined US$7500', '<p>ALBERT BRYNDZA, also known as "Kortelio," age 35, of Parlin, New Jersey, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to three years of probation, the first six months of which BRYNDZA must serve confined to his home. Judge Chatigny also ordered BRYNDZA to pay a fine in the amount of $7500 and to perform 120 hours of community service. On March 8, 2005, BRYNDZA waived indictment and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. This matter stems from a multinational software piracy investigation known as "Operation Higher Education."</p>\r\n<p>\r\nAccording to documents filed with the Court and statements made in court, between June 1999 and April 2004, BRYNDZA was a participant in the "warez scene," an underground online community consisting of individuals and organized groups who engage in the large scale reproduction, modification and distribution of copyrighted software over the internet. BRYNDZA was a member of Fairlight and Kalisto, online piracy release groups that specialized in the illegal distribution of computer games, including PC and console games. BRYNDZA has admitted that he built and operated two large servers for use by members of the Fairlight and Kalisto groups (among others) to store and distribute thousands of titles of pirated software and other digital media. From June 2000 to April 2004, Kalisto was responsible for releasing to the warez scene pirated copies of more than 500 well-known, copyrighted computer games, often before the date of their legitimate commercial release.</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Technology News Daily', 'Technology News Daily', 'http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/8009', 0, 0, '2007-09-19 07:19:38', 1491, NULL),
(188, 'Former Leader of Mage Sentenced to 12 Months', 'Justin Emch, 27 of Kenmore, Washington has been sentenced to 12 months prison on one felony count of conspiracy to infringe on copyright. He has also been ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and serve two years of a supervised release.\r\n<p></p>\r\nEmch was one of many scene members netted in the April 2004 worldwide bust known as Operation Fastlink. His group Mage was a minor player in the underground application ISO scene who continued to release for over a year after his arrest.\r\n<p></p>\r\nIncidentally Mage used to include a generic disclaimer in the NFO file of their releases. It would state that the release is copyrighted, and that the warez release was only allowed to be used as a personal backup or archive. This type of disclaimer was quite common in the old BBS pirate scene days during the early 1990s. Obviously disclaimers are nothing more than wasted space.\r\n<p><kbd>MaGE LEGAL DISCLAIMER; It is against the law to reproduce copyrighted material for the purpose of selling it to third parties. US Law only allows for you to make one backup copy of any software or media for personal and archival purposes, which is the ONLY intended use for this software. This program is not meant for those who intend on breaking copyright laws. In no way will we be held responsible if you do. Any other use of this software is strictly prohibited.</kbd></p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', 'Linux Electrons', 'http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/13917/mage-warez-group-leader-sentenced-prison', 0, 0, '2007-11-04 19:06:02', 1866, NULL),
(189, 'Defacto2 Scene Site Pack', 'Today we are proud to release the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/download.cfm?260015240D0104261C590E040804211B0D783E2B092B1B0715320711271C3D1A000D0E6C150B3A5A565D76575919020B0B274F3123150B45120E0121-EN">Defacto2 Scene Site Pack</a>. This new package is replacement for the old and forgotten The Scene Archive BBS Pack, which hadn''t been updated since 2001. The replacement pack contains extensive BBS-tros, ANSI, ascii and image adverts for numerous worldwide elite sites from the nineteen nineties. These have been all sorted into directories derived from the site''s original and complete name.\r\n<p>There are 375 different Bulletin Board Systems listed containing over a thousand different adverts. While over on the Internet side we have an additional 60 elite FTP sites which hold 62 adverts.</p>\r\n<p>A complete list of all the sites included can be <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=189&url=http://www.defacto2.net/scenepacklist.cfm">found here</a>, while the pack itself <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/download.cfm?260015240D0104261C590E040804211B0D783E2B092B1B0715320711271C3D1A000D0E6C150B3A5A565D76575919020B0B274F3123150B45120E0121-EN">can be downloaded from here</a>.</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, 'http://www.defacto2.net/download.cfm?260015240D0104261C590E040804211B0D783E2D17230C093E13013A120E01214C5C5572584C7D1B5554705E547E5055312A0A4219020B0B274F233802060C340A4209130F06291B1025124E35230C09-EN', 1, 0, '2008-01-06 21:19:20', 2600, NULL),
(190, 'Dr. Detergent  Passes Away', '<p>We have the unfortunate task of relaying some sad news today.</p><p style="font-style:italic;">\r\nI just found out that a friend, Dr. Detergent has passed away. It''s been some time but I just managed to find him again since we lost contact for a very long time. Unfortunately I found out he had passed away in his sleep at the age of 33.\r\n</p><p>\r\nDr. Detergent was a well respected cracker and programmer the 1990s. Known for his cracking ability, his name could often be found on various cracks and trainers for various games from the golden era of PC gaming. A former member of many renowned groups he will be missed by the many people who worked with him during those legendary Razor 1911, The Dream Team, Syndicate, Phoenix, INC and The Humble Guys days.</p>\r\n<p><a href="http://www.defacto2.net/web.pages/df2web99/scene-archive/trainers-tutorial.html">Untouchables Tutorial by Dr Detergent from 1993</a><br />\r\n<a href="http://www.defacto2.net/groups/tdt/GOLF.NFO">The Dream Team NFO written by Dr Detergent</a><br />\r\n<a href="http://www.defacto2.net/groups/unt/SILKTRN.NFO">Untouchables NFO written by Dr Detergent</a>\r\n</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 0, 0, '2008-04-02 03:59:14', 444, NULL),
(191, 'Westbam Passing', '<p>After the recent unfortunate news in regards to the death of Dr. Detergent. It was alerted to us that Westbam had also passed away two years ago at the age of 36.</p><p>\r\nWestbam was most known for his European based activities with TRSI, Razor 1911, INC, and Legend in the early to mid-1990s and later with the original Divine.</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 0, 0, '2008-05-02 20:09:00', 436, NULL),
(192, 'Former Fairlight Leader Turned Republican Chairman', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/tonykrvaric.jpg" alt="Tony Krvaric" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" /><p>Last Thursday the leftist, sensationalist, US political blog The Raw Story had outed conservative San Diego Republican Chairman Tony Krvaric as one time scene member Strider. Strider is probably best known as one of two guys who co-founded Fairlight back in 1987 on the Commodore 64. Later in 1992, after being inspired by Ronald Ragan he migrated to the USA and for a short time continued the group''s activities on the PC.</p><p>Mr Krvaric has never shied away from his scene past. In 1993 he incorporated Fairlight Trading in California. He has used the strider alias with e-mail addresses and the Fairlight web domain for politicial campaigns. What did Mr Krvaric have to say about his recent expose?</p><p><em>Apparently there''s a hit piece floating around on me, ''exposing'' my wild high school, teenage years where I was in a computer club where we swapped Commodore 64 games (similar to how kids swap mp3 music files these days). This was in the 80''s, on a computer that''s long since defunct!</em></p><p>This is not the first time the Internet has been used to attack Mr Krvaric. It was only 13 months ago when an online publication known as the Californian Christian News wrote an article accusing Mr Krvaric of being pro-American flag burning. They cited a 1995 public forum message board, quoting a reply apparently written by the Republican Chairman on the hot topic.</p><p>Now that everyone knows Strider''s current political stance and position with the Republican Party. The old Commodore 64 Fairlight tag, ''kill a commie for mummy'' certainly takes on another meaning for many old schoolers.</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', 'The Raw Story', 'http://rawstory.com/news/2008/San_Diego_GOP_chairman_cofounded_international_0425.html', 0, 0, '2008-05-02 20:16:42', 1482, NULL),
(193, 'Bandido of Drink or Die Fame Gives TV Interview', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/latelinedod.png" alt="Bandido" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" /><p>Hew Griffiths, aka Bandido of Drink or Die fame. The man was caught up in Operation Buccaneer back in 2001. Who spent many years fighting an extradition order to the US, for a crime that would not have warranted jail time in home country of Australia. Was release from a US Federal Prison in Virginia the earlier in the year. Hew has since returned home to Australia and has conducted a television interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation''s Lateline current affairs program.</p><p>\r\nUnder the guise of "Elder of Internet Piracy talks to Lateline", Hew talks about his time in prison, his time as the leader of Drink or Die and why he thought the previous Australian federal government did nothing to help his case.</p>\r\n<p>A transcript of the interview in full can be found at the <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2229993.htm">ABC''s Lateline website</a>, as can <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200804/r245362_1001155.asx">the video</a>.  </p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', 'ABC', 'http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2229993.htm', 0, 0, '2008-05-12 02:40:58', 1376, NULL),
(194, 'Defacto2 Sitetro 2008', '<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/df2webtro.png" alt="Defacto2 Sitetro Shot" style=" margin:5px;" />\r\n<p>You can <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros.cfm?id=869">download it here</a>. Credits goto to the guys at electric druggies and s!p. <a href="http://intro-inferno.com/production.php?id=6225">Feel free to vote for our sitetro.</a></p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', 'Defacto2', 'http://www.defacto2.net/cracktros.cfm?id=869', 1, 0, '2008-05-19 05:11:18', 1344, NULL),
(195, 'Download Our Files With Care', '<strong>Virus/Trojan warning!</strong>\r\n<p><span style="color:red;">UPDATE:</span> <em>Some people have reported that the Trojan reports are false positives due to the way certain crack-tros are packed using combined compression and encryption. This is the same way these Trojans are often packaged. But still our advise on running them in an isolated environment stands.</em></p>\r\n<p>The Maktone Cracktros and Installer pack contains a number of installers and cracktros originally designed for Windows 98. It has come to our attention that 5 files within this pack are infected with Adware Trojans.</p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>class-gameboy-installer.zip - Trojan Vundo</li>\r\n<li>class-peanuts.zip - Backdoor.Bifrose</li>\r\n<li>cls-1999_04_03.zip - Trojan Vundo</li>\r\n<li>cls-1999_02_15.zip - Trojan Vundo</li>\r\n<li>class-bubbles.zip - Trojan Horse</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<p>Unfortunately this means these files have to be removed from the pack as they cannot be disinfected.</p>\r\n<p>Also 21 cracktros and installers have been infected. These infected files can also be found in the Defacto2 ISO Collection 2007 and the The Scene Archive Cracktros Pack. <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=196&url=http://www.defacto2.net/Defacto2_2007_Trojans-Viruses.txt">A full list of the infected files can be found in this text document.</a></p>\r\n\r\n<p>As always common sense dictates that you always run an up to date scan over any execute/program files contained in a download. Especially from a historical scene site such as ours where at the time of upload, the infection might not have been detected by the scanners of the era. While we do scan every file we put online, we do not often run periodic update scans on the files already on the server.</p>\r\n<p>So we as always recommend that with any file you download from Defacto2. If it contains an execute or program file you should run with caution. We always suggest an isolated  virtual environment such as Virtual PC, DOSBox, VirtualBox or VMware.</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 1, 0, '2008-12-12 04:22:01', 376, NULL),
(196, 'Defacto2 YouTube Video and Site Updates', 'I thought I would let you know of a few updates that we have recently introduced to Defacto2. Firstly you might have noticed the site''s<p style="text-align:center;"><------------------------ width ------------------------></p>is slightly longer. We have added an extra 200 pixels to every page on the site to increase legibility.\r\n<p>\r\nAlso in the process is an upgrade to our <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=196&url=http://youtube.com/user/defacto2">YouTube account</a>. Hopefully soon, where possible we will have every DOS crack and intro hosted as a ''high quality'' on YouTube video. We are planning to also update the older low quality videos that were put on the channel a couple of years ago into high quality video.\r\n</p><p>\r\nOnce this project is eventually complete the videos captures we have created will then be released as a crack-intro video pack. You will be able to download the pack from Defacto2 and play the videos using your favourite media player. This pack will also be included in an updated release of the <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=196&url=http://www.defacto2.net/download.cfm?260015240D0104261C590E040804211B0D783E27360D30507A51594B7515597E505C57745759240E020A210E0E71250B03230C1625534E2C112042090E0209270C16230E0045705F527D-EN">Defacto2 ISO DVD image</a>.\r\n</p><p>\r\nFinally we have added a new category to our webpage portal, ''<a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=196&url=http://www.defacto2.net/portal.cfm?category=Torrent&sort=cat2">Legal Scene Torrents</a>''. Currently we have 5 entries but we hope this will be expanded at a later date.</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 1, 0, '2009-01-23 18:43:14', 1876, NULL),
(197, 'New Art Pack', '<p>Today we have released a new file pack, the Group Logos Pack. This is a collection of over 1,560 scene group logos and art pieces that were once collected by Climbatiz. Climbatiz once ran a web site at http://crackart.95mb.com/ which housed all these pieces but it has long since been abandoned. So the collection has been donated to us for hosting.</p><p>The pack is released under a Creative Commons (cc) Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike licence. The artworks within are still copyrighted by their respective artists.</p>\r\n<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/Scene-Pack-Preview.png" alt="Pack preview" style="margin-left:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" />\r\n<p><a href="http://www.defacto2.net/news.cfm?id=197&url=http://www.defacto2.net/download.cfm?260015240D0104261C590E040804211B0D783E29172D1A12152D01022D1C4C30081E5E775857725055223000173A41220A2500116A310F0629-EN">You can download the pack here</a>.</p>', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 1, 0, '2009-04-16 08:09:36', 590, NULL),
(198, 'Random Visitor Statistics for Defacto2', 'Today I thought I would do something different and list some of the more interesting statistics for defacto2.net in the past month. To give some idea of the type of users who visit this site and where you go.\r\n<p>\r\nFor web browsing, 62% of you use Firefox, 20% use Internet Explorer, 9% use Opera, 4% use Chrome and 2% use Safari.\r\n</p><p>\r\n91% use Windows, 5% use Linux, 3.5% run Macintosh machines.\r\n</p><p>\r\n22.7% use a screen resolution of 1280x1024, 19% use 1024x768, 15% are at 1680x1050 and 13% are at 1280x800.\r\n</p><p>\r\nA massive 81% of you have Adobe Flash 10 installed, the remainder have Flash 9 installed, while only 3.5% of you have no Flash plug-in at all.\r\n</p><p>\r\n84.46% have some form of Java support, with 15.5% having no support.\r\n</p><p>\r\nSpeed wise, 34% of you are on DSL, 24% are on cable, 5% use a T1 line and fortunately only 3.7% still use dial-up, I feel for you guys.\r\n</p><p>\r\n22% of you come from the United States, 12% from Germany, 7% from Russia, 6% from Sweden.\r\n</p><p>\r\nThe Japanese spend the most time on the site with an average visit of nearly 6 minutes, while the Indonesians spend the least with an average visit of only 27 seconds. The median visit is 2 minutes and 15 seconds.\r\n</p><p>\r\nOnly 19% of traffic was direct, 40% of you were referred from other websites and another 41% were referred from search engine results.\r\n</p><p>\r\nThe top five referring sites for past month were Wikipedia, the Russian site Softboard.ru, a blogspot.com item on our recent scene artpack, stumbleupon.com and aboutthescene.com.\r\n</p><p>\r\nTop search engines are Google with 96% of the referrals, Yahoo with 1.6%, Search with 0.8% and Microsoft Live with only 0.35%!\r\n</p><p>\r\nThe most popular pages on the site were the front page with 21% of the total views. 2nd was the Defacto2 - NFO Utilities; 3rd the Razor 1911 group page at 3.1%; 4th the Scene Documents, text and NFO files page at 3% and 5th was the Reloaded group page at 2%.</p>\r\n<img src="http://www.defacto2.net/images/misc/april-stats.png" alt="statistics" style="float:left; margin-right:5px;margin-bottom:5px;" />', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 1, 0, '2009-05-15 03:29:25', 69, NULL),
(199, 'No replies to Contact Us messages', 'In the past month if you have sent us a message using the Defacto2 contacts forms and have not received a reply, then I must apologise. Unfortunately it seems that the e-mail address those messages were forwarded to expired; so all the messages submitted in the past month has been lost. While the issue has now been fix there is not much I can do to recover the lost messages. So if it was important I would ask that you please resend.', NULL, NULL, NULL, 'Ipggi', NULL, NULL, 1, 0, '2009-05-23 03:14:09', 54, NULL);
