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Warez Monkey [message #66140]

Thu, 12 February 2004 07:08

tooncy
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Registered: February 2004

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http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6089247.html

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Crime sure didn't pay for Sean Michael Breen. In an Oakland court on Tuesday, the Richmond, California resident was sentenced to 50 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Saundra Armstrong...

...Razor1911 members also posed as customers of Cisco Systems in order to falsely place massive game orders. This tactic came back to haunt Breen today, when Judge Armstrong ordered him to pay $690,236.91 in restitution to Cisco...

And look at this:

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...according to court documents and his own confession, Breen and other Razor1911 members acquired, cracked, and sold advance copies of Quake, Command & Conquer Red Alert, Terminal Velocity, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, and many other games. They acquired advance copies of said titles by posing as reviewers for fictitious game magazines and having them shipped to a derelict storefront address in Oakland...

I think razor was from the Red Alert Archive. They released the full version of Red Alert on their site a few weeks ago. That would explain why Red Alert is on the list of pirated games.

http://www.n00bstories.com/image.fetch.php?id=1096263174

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Warez Monkey [message #66161]

Thu, 12 February 2004 11:04

dal11
Messages: 67
Registered: December 2003
Location: St. Louis

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Thats weird because the original red alert wasn't copy protected, or had serials with it. How would they crack it, since it didnt need to be cracked?
Anyways glad they CAN catch little bastards that do crap like that. Smile