Episode 31 - Operation Buccaneer

Warez groups, undercover cops, and the war on software piracy. This is the story of DrinkorDie.

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Sources:

Encyclopedia of Cybercrime, by Samuel C. McQuade

Software Piracy Exposed, by Ron Honick

Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy, by Martin Paul Eve

Crime and Deviance in Cyberspace, edited by David S. Wall

“Cross-national investigation and prosecution of intellectual property crimes: the example of ‘Operation Buccaneer,’” by Gregor Urbas, Crime, Law and Social Change Volume: 46 Issue: 4-5 Dated: 2006 Pages: 207-221

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4518771.stm

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/technology/pirates-on-the-web-spoils-on-the-street.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm 

https://www.wired.com/1997/04/ff-warez/

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/fbi-raids-cripple-software-pirates/

 https://news.mit.edu/2001/computerpiracy

https://www.theage.com.au/national/australia-hands-over-man-to-us-courts-20070507-ge4twy.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S5ASDsl3QE 

https://web.archive.org/web/19970611213535/http://www.drinkordie.com:80/history.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=cA3qL9PBR0kC&pg=PA19&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q=drinkordie&f=false

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/business/technology-guilty-plea-by-suspect-in-web-theft.html

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19950629&slug=2128808

https://pophistorydig.com/topics/start-me-up-1995/

https://onezero.medium.com/remembering-the-iconic-windows-95-launch-94cfcf215d50

http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N68/68piracy.68n.html

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/02/10/04/144217/former-drinkordie-member-chris-tresco-answers

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/19/business/technology-us-expands-investigation-into-piracy-of-software.html

https://news.mit.edu/2001/computerpiracy

https://web.archive.org/web/20111209003117/http://www.cybercrime.gov/sankusSent.htm

https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1186&context=facpubs

https://web.archive.org/web/20130415114316/http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/press-releases/2003/pitmanSent.htm 

http://tech.mit.edu/V122/N32/32tresco.32n.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/19/business/technology-us-expands-investigation-into-piracy-of-software.html 

https://news.mit.edu/2001/computerpiracy 

http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N68/68piracy.68n.html 

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/02/10/04/144217/former-drinkordie-member-chris-tresco-answers 

https://onlineethics.org/cases/indictment-david-lamacchia 

https://www.wired.com/1997/04/ff-warez/ 

https://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/stats/piracy-statistics.html