It’s unlikely that all of the groups mentioned were ‘eliminated.’ Perhaps their hardware is no longer available, but it’s doubtful they managed to round up every member of all of the groups noted. Some of the groups mentioned have members or persons of some degree of affiliation in countries other than those mentioned, including the US, UK, and Canada. Their main distribution servers may be off-line, but collectively they have dumpsites in every corner of the globe. Some of the entities who own the machines used for hosting these aren’t even aware of what’s going on because of lax security or ignorance resulting in leaving the door wide open.

The characterization of the infringed upon material ‘trickling down’ through a heiarchy is rather amusing. Usually it’s a race to see who ‘publishes’ first in order to claim the coveted ‘proper’ designation on their release. We saw Revenge of the Sith showing up on Torrent sites about 6 hours after it was ‘borrowed’ from a company wrapping up some post-production work on it.

It’s even more amusing that whomever wrote this piece uses the term ‘warez’ in the context of films, and specifcally the ‘online warez community.’

Perhaps their next case will involve doing something about the ‘offline’ warez community as well? No doubt they’re already dredging the internet looking for it……

“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.”

At first I kind of chuckled to myself, but then I slowly realized that this is very likely true for the situation we all find ourselves in these days with the MPAA/RIAA and their clones around the world. I have no doubt the tighter they squeeze, not only the more do they miss who probably gets away to pirate another day, but also do they more than likely cause regular folks to turn to piracy who might not have originally. It’s called sticking it to “the man”, and I have no doubt there are many out there that don’t mind the risk involved to do it. We spend our whole lives struggling, toiling under the rule of “the man”. Do this, don’t do that, now give us your money. It’s not surprising that we see greater and greater numbers of people turning to the internet for their illicit entertainment.

There you go… among other things, one thing is competition that concerns the industry.

So what about the large percentage of insider ‘leaks’?

Here is a little update, seems like GVU itself was involved in some foul scheme to get their hands on p2P-user informations.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68760

Well, this is not very surprising, isn’t it?