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U.S. Takeover Fails to Shutdown Bootleg Web Site
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it had seized a Web site that offered information on bootlegged video games and movies, but the site remained available to many Internet users.
The Justice Department said it had taken over the Web site (http://www.isonews.com) after its owner pleaded guilty to selling computer chips that would enable users to play bootleg video games on Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O). Xbox consoles. Some visitors to the site found a warning against copyright infringement and a link to the Justice Department's computer-crime division, but others were able to reach a version of the original site, which serves as a meeting place for Internet users. A Justice Department spokesman was not immediately available for comment. The site, which claimed up to 140,000 hits each day, does not contain illegal copies of video games, software and movies, but instead contains message boards where Internet users can trade tips about such "warez," and visitors continued to post messages there early on Wednesday afternoon. A computer network engineer explained to Reuters that the domain name pointed to at least two numerical Internet addresses, only one of which was controlled by the government. Users would encounter differing versions of the Web site depending on which address was stored by their "name servers," which match domain names to numerical addresses, the engineer said. According to the Justice Department, David Rocci, 22, agreed to surrender the site after pleading guilty last December to importing 450 Enigmah Mod Chips from Britain and selling them for between $45 and $60 apiece. Rocci will face a prison sentence of up to five years and fines up to $500,000 at his sentencing on March 7, the government said. "David Rocci developed a public Web site that specifically catered to the underground piracy community," said Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff. "He attempted to profit by marketing circumvention devices to that community knowing they would be used to play pirated games." |
yah, I heard about that. Kinda sucks alot.
Hope that guy can watch his ass in jail (if you get my drift..lol). Seriously though, that really sucks. It's not that the site revolved around warez, but the resaon he's getting sentanced to jail was for selling modchips. Such a pitty. They still have a mirror of the site up, but I'm allowed to post it here. |
It has not failed to shutdown that 'bootleg' site. Read THIS thread over in the PS2 Forum. Theres a link in there about why people can still access the site. Theres also a link to the mirror too (Kinda masked, but not too hard to find).
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I think this guy was selling more then just modchips to get him self busted, I'm thinking maybe he was selling games under the counter... Look at all the other sites selling chips, they havnt had any probs. Maybe the guy was programming DirecTV's access cards :D and they decied to nail him for selling modchips to, I donno...
As for getting to the site... I know their forums are still up. But the main page isnt. |
I get the main page. You try this address?
http://66.201.243.170 |
Wow that sucks. Yea I think the DOJ needed to make an example of him in hopes it will persuade others to stop. He might have really been busted over the illegal importing of the modchips. I hope they give him a lesser sentence.
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I believe the gov. is starting to crack down on sites now. There are many, MANY, sites related to warez that are being shutdown and have bean shutdown this week. Im afraid if game copy world is next. That would truly suck.
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dude lets hope they dont find gamecopy world, it would sooo suck
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if they really want to
finish off with piracy they should look on irc no isonews.com LOL:o |
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