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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. Emch 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 I...

Kortelio From Fairlight And Kalisto Fined US$7500
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, BRYNDZ...

Former Kalisto Ripper Fined And Sentanced To Three Years Probation
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 ...

Bandido, Former Drink Or Die Leader Is Sentenced To 51 Months Jail
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...

Defacto2 Web-Intro
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. As you can see from the screenshot the intro looks very snazzy. Comprising of completely new source material, the font, logo a...

Operation FastLink Body Count Now Totals 50
Today the US Department of Justice was proud to announce the successful conviction of their 50th criminal arrested and charged under Operation Fastlink.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. Mr Eaves now f...

'Bandido' Pleads Guilty
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. 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...

New Magazine Added
We 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 text reports section. Unfortunately we only have the issues between Jan-2005 and Jan-2007. If you have any earlier or later issues could you please send them to us....

'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. Hew Raymond Griffiths, 44, a British nati...

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...

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 working reply e-mail address! The number of times we have been sent e-mails asking questions, us replying and then having the reply bounced back to us is ridiculous. So to Muhkuh, who wrote to us yesterday and supplied us with an invalid e-mail address. You can upload your file here...

US DOJ Still Chasing Accused RISCISO Members
BARBADIAN broadcaster Linda Walrond (57) is not off the hook. The 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. However, while the charges and an arrest warrant in the US still hang over the head of the Barbadian, American prosecutors are playing very cl...

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. So 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 st...

Mindcandy Volume 2: Amiga Demos
THE WAIT IS OVER It has been a long four years since the release of "MindCandy Volume 1: PC Demos" for most of you. Your wait for the follow up MindCandy DVD, Amiga Demos, is now over. We are now taking orders for MindCandy Volume 2: Amiga Demos. As someone on our reservation list you will have a chance to order early--before our media blitz and "official" launch date of 16 January 2007. This t...

The Underground Gone Mainstream?
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 ...

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. Judging 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...

New Defacto2 Tweaks And Features
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. Firstly 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...

Calling All The Old Schoolers
The guys at Bitfellas are doing a recruitment drive at the moment, old style with a zipped up ascii invitation. Who are Bitfellas? 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! BF is supposed to become a huge scene commun...

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. Titled Steal This Film and running for just over 32 minutes. This wide screen DVD quality documentary is the first part of ...

Freax - The Art Album Is Now Out
The guys who published the popular Freax - The Brief History of the Demo Scene are back with a new book, Freax - The Art Album. Unlike 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. Included are .. - Commodore 64 graphics - Amiga OCS and AGA graphics - ZX Spectrum graphics - Atari ST and Falcon graphics - Amstrad C...

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