Online Groups Behind Bulk of Bootleg Films (& Games)

xasper8 writes "First it was the RIAA, now Hollywood is cracking the legal whip on online piracy." There's a better article about this in the recent issue of Wired that gets more in depth on this. Basically, good background on how file releases get made. <update> Yes, we did have Wired link yesterday as well. My bad.

OMG! Online groups responsible...

[Anonymous Coward]

...for all that stuff that is online. Now this is reporting!

All these years the Wired guys were downloading...

[Anonymous Coward]

...and they finally get around to reading the .nfo. I guess they had been too busy wielding their prowess at layout.

Slashdot Warezing own stories

[Jarnis]

Copying [slashdot.org] is bad. Someone call the FBI... :p

Surprise! Another Wired link

[whiskeypete]

We know from experience that nearly EVERY story in this months issue will eventually be a Slashdot article. Why don't we save time by posting a default wired link at the beginning of each month, instead of slowly trickling out one story each day?

Re:Warez Scene != Drug War

[Anonymous Coward]

This is your brain(insert picture of egg),this is your brain after watching batman,the incredible hulk or catwoman)(insert picture of fried egg) LOL

Re:explanations

[bob beta]

And I think of USENET as a globalized version of the BBSes I used to call, like the one I used to run on an XT-clone with a 5 meg hard drive.

You're not getting THAT old, sonny.

Re:explanations

[EvilMagnus]

Ha!
I still think of IRC as a prettied-up version of talk over telnet...

multi-user system chat on old mainframes, baby. That's kickin' it old skool. Or something.