Another busts on the US scene
The reports of new scene busts are happening more and more often. These more interested of you may clearly remember wave of scene busts and raids, the biggest of them from the beginning of last summer. And now it’s here again: FBI agents raided two datacentres with some huge sites hosted there and took down over 20 boxes. The affected hostings are Layered Tech and Servermatrix, both located in Texas, US. Owners of these hostings also provided FBI names and address of server owners so it may have serious consequences too.
The affected release groups include such a big names as FLAMES, DiAMOND, SAGA and HAFVCD (all movie groups) or F4GC and TBE (0day appz). Some of their presites were completely shutted down while others get offline due to recent events. There are also reports about one topsite with 24TB of space being confiscated in Servermatrix datacentre. The reason of these busts is quite simple – the insecurity of such servers hosted as normal colocation servers. Everyone can start such a server and it’s not hard for the network operators to find out there’s some site with enormous traffic and huge portion of warez, and then report it to MPAA/FBI. Security should be always on the first place…
NFOs (sorry, not for public):
- First.Info.On.US.Busts.2006-06-08.READ.NFO-CONFiRMED
- Report.of.US.Busts.20060608.READ.NFO-SDE
- Smoking.The.Race.Raided.5.Boxes.Warning.LT-BUSTS
Comments(36)
The .us scene had it coming for them, the insecure motherfuckers, think they own the place then go cry when they get busted because of there own insecurity. I couldnt care less for them anymore, there fault.
know any .eu groups?
Finaly
zoso, plently.
Aren’t all the good servers in foreign countries anyway? Why would they host warez servers here where it’s highly illegal? Stupid..
bulldoz, i doubt that. all good stuff comes from sua.
Having your sites in the US is a bit like comitting murder in front of a police station, isn’t it?
Duh.
Damn, I liked alot of dmd releases.
A shame, but .us colo scene hasn’t been, isn’t and won’t be ever secure. saga has already said goodbye and dmd status is unknown
I know I left the curry scene in good time and was there when everything was still ‘the good old days’.
Take care – all those affected, it scares the living shit out of everybody.
/pwd
Martin: Please, change F4GC to F4CG. (Respect to groups!)
ohh crap not diamonds thats was one of the best dvdrip releasers crap well now ill have to depend on others.
@garry_b some servers were raided but it’s not sure DiAMOND stops releasing
“bulldoz, i doubt that. all good stuff comes from sua.”
Alright mr. awesome scener, just watch how drastic the scene has changed since these ENOURMOUS busts has happened *lol* . People crying over this are probably the people who are following the trend. New groups will form, and in the next fe w months no-one is going to be giving a shit what groups were busted.
Damn, DiAMOND were the best DVDRips releasers.
yeah, DiAMOND was well good. ah fuck it, gonna watch football for the next month
bulldOZ, i never said i was a scener.
and scene won’t change, but we will feel setbacks.
[17:03:18] http://slyck.com/news.php?story=1215 most of it isnt really true, but it gives you the info that you guys seem to wanna know
http://pastebin.com/pastebin.php?show=769802
acording to reliable source, DMD wasn’t involved.
God man, it’s been said a million times before:
There have ALWAYS BEEN SCENE BUSTS. All it means is that there might be a little slow period before more groups start releasing.
I’ve been doing this for 15 years now, scene busts are always going to happen. The people flipping out and crying are the ones that are new to the scene and probably rely on torrents completely
I love reading these comments. Let the colos burn. Unfortunate that a non-colo went down though. That’s fucked up.
hehe
Boxes in US are bound to get busted..US is the copyright capital of the world..
torrent rules!
dude there wouldnt even be torrents if it wasnt for the ‘’scene” and it was a .us site, becuase they use colos, and they are fuckin stupid
torrent dudes should stick to releasing shit they capped/ripped/whatever themselves.
There was a non-colo busted as well. Sure, colos are insecure, but non-colos aren’t infallible…
Scene goes with insecurity most of the time. There’s still a lot of way to secure it. No .eu sites and an encryption of the files can be a solution maybe. Anyway, busts are parts of the game like a leecher can be caught. We have to face our responsability sometimes even if i dont think the internet piracy should be punished especially by 10 years of jail in usa :/.
Annapolis DVDRip XviD-DiAMOND
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RELEASE DATE : 06.10.06
is tell a lot
prd:
“THEY are the easy targets while the mass of p2pers are releasing more and more original stuff every day..”
You don’t actually think that p2p people release things, now do you?
@Knarkoffer
P2P release _lots_ of stuff, you just need to know the sites. And prd made a good point.
i release some things man keygens and cracks and im not from “scene” i m from rusia
There’s a whole lotta bullshit being talked here. Scene using hacked servers? hahahaha
Maybe the FXP board scene, but that’s no more “the scene” than the bittorrent trackers are.
I appreciate the p2pers that release their own stuff. In the past i did too, tvrips, but i move on to bigger things, with bigger rewards and, yes, bigger risks. I don’t like p2pers spreading stuff i released intended to be shared only with other sceners, but it happens, so fuck it.
the .us scene will die.
Dan if that happens.
The you are my new g0d. LoL
respect to all those, who art to know everything.
Live the lie, not all nfos are true.
Just my two cents…
there’s no .us scene anymore. just us suppliers, but they can use .eu sites aswell, as speeds us-eu raised to a very usable value nowadays. core of the scene has always been and will be in europe.