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	Encyclopedia: DrinkOrDie
		Richard Berry age 34, of Rockville, Maryland, who used the screename "flood", pled guilty on April 29, 2002 to one felony count charging conspiracy to violate the criminal copyright laws.
		Berry was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Streampipe.com in Alexandria, VA. A longtime member of DrinkOrDie, he supplied members with computer hardware, occasionally tested software, and operated BNCs for the FTP sites known as Fatal Error, Packet Storm, and Lake of Fire.
		Sabuj Pattanayek age 21, of Nashville, Tennessee, who used the screename "buj", pled guilty on April 16, 2002 and was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for conspiring to violate criminal copyright laws.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/DrinkOrDie (2933 words)

	Washtech.com
		The ringleader of a software piracy group known as DrinkOrDie today was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for his role in a "warez" operation that caused millions of dollars in damages, federal prosecutors said.
		DrinkOrDie, which investigators say is among the oldest software piracy groups in existence, was at the center of a federal probe called "Operation Buccaneer" that led to the execution of 70 search warrants worldwide.
		DrinkOrDie is among a large number of warez that illegally distribute hundreds of thousands of copies of copyrighted works around the world worth billions of dollars in losses each year, he said.
	old.law.columbia.edu /CPC/archive/crime/A33842-2002May17.html (429 words)

	Newsbytes News Network: DrinkOrDie Software Pirate Goes To Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A figure in the software pirating group DrinkOrDie has been sent to prison for nearly three years, the first of many members of the "warez" organization that will be sentenced for their roles in an operation that caused millions of dollars in damages.
		DrinkOrDie, which investigators say is among the oldest software piracy groups in existence, was at the center of a federal probe called "Operation Buccaneer" that led to the execution of 70 search warrants worldwide on Dec. 11.
		DrinkOrDie is among a large number of warez groups that illegally distribute hundreds of thousands of copies of copyrighted works around the world worth billions of dollars in losses each year, said McNulty.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_0/m0NEW/2002_May_3/85391530/p1/article.jhtml (506 words)

	DrinkOrDie - Wikipedia
		DrinkOrDie (DoD) was a Web-based software cracking and trading (warez) network during the 1990s, shut down in a major raid in 2001.
		DrinkOrDie was founded in 1993 in Moscow by a Russian with the handle "deviator".
		In the United States, 56 search warrants were served and approximately 130 computers, each holding an average of a terabyte of data, were seized.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/DrinkOrDie (534 words)

	DrinkOrDie -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DrinkOrDie (DoD) was an underground (Click link for more info and facts about software cracking) software cracking and (Click link for more info and facts about warez) warez trading network during the (The decade from 1990 to 1999) 1990s, shut down by a major raid in 2001.
		The DrinkOrDie network is considered criminal for (A document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work) copyright (An act that disregards an agreement or a right) infringement.
		Berry was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Streampipe.com in Alexandria, VA. A longtime member of DrinkOrDie, he supplied members with computer hardware, occasionally tested software, and operated (Click link for more info and facts about BNC) BNCs for the FTP sites known as Fatal Error, Packet Storm, and Lake of Fire.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/dr/drinkordie2.htm (1319 words)

	DrinkOrDie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Australian leader Hew Raymond Griffiths 40, known by his screenname "Bandido", has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of criminal copyright infringement, and has been involved in legal action in Australia.
		Grimes supplied Check Point firewall software to DrinkOrDie on at least two occasions, and he operated an FTP site known as High Octane and was affiliated with RiSC, MYTH, RTS, and DrinkOrDie.
		Your Rights Online: DrinkOrDie Warez Trader to be Extradited to U.S. ZDNet UK article regarding DoD members standing trial.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/DrinkOrDie (1239 words)

	Knowledge King - DrinkOrDie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 2001, DrinkOrDie had two leaders, one in the United States and another in Australia.
		On December 11, 2001, in an international operation known as "Operation Buccaneer", law enforcement agents in six countries targeted 62 people, with leads in twenty other countries.
		The DrinkOrDie website, where the software could be downloaded for free, was also shut down that day.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/d/dr/drinkordie.html (566 words)

	High-level software piracy suspect pleads guilty - Computerworld
		DrinkOrDie has allegedly been involved in the illegal online distribution of pirated copies of copyrighted software, computer games and movies, according to the government.
		The DrinkOrDie group was one of several piracy operations targeted as part of several federal investigations into international software piracy during the past two years.
		DrinkOrDie is one of the "most elite and most notorious pirate groups," and prosecuting its members is an important step in stopping its operations, Kruger said.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2002/0,4814,68685,00.html (487 words)

	Jail for net pirates DrinkorDie who saw themselves as Robin Hoods - // Zeropaid.com News
		DrinkOrDie is one of the oldest and most sophisticated software pirate groups within the "Warez" community, which is a loose, global network of Internet pirate gangs.
		According to DrinkOrDie's public website, the group was founded in Moscow in 1993 by a Russian individual known as "Deviator." Membership quickly expanded from a group of Russian nationals to worldwide membership by 1995.
		Some members of DrinkOrDie and other Warez groups are software company employees who steal their firm's software prior to its public release and provide it to other Warez members.
	www.zeropaid.com /news/5356/Jail (1339 words)

	PC Magazine: Feds Take Action Against Software Pirates
		The U.S. Customs Service's action targeted the DrinkOrDie warez group, a collective with origins in Russia that customs officials say is one of the largest and most active piracy groups on the Internet.
		One of the peculiarities of the warez scene is that its denizens hide in plain sight.
		DrinkOrDie began in Moscow in 1993, customs officials said, and quickly expanded beyond Russia's borders.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200112/ai_ziff19903 (593 words)

	DrinkOrDie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 2001 the group was busted in an FBI operationcalled Operation Buccaneer.
		At the time, DrinkOrDie had twoleaders, one in the United States and another in Australia.
		The DrinkOrDie archives, like most other warez archives, included business software as well as movies including Harry Potter and the Sorcerer'sStone, Behind Enemy Lines, Monsters Inc., and SpyGame.
	www.therfcc.org /drinkordie-84839.html (268 words)

	Company News On Call
		DrinkOrDie is the largest and oldest organized software piracy group on the Internet ever prosecuted.
		In response to the conviction, Keith Kupferschmid, Vice President of Intellectual Property Policy and Enforcement for SIIA commended the Attorney General and the entire criminal division for recognizing the harm caused by DrinkOrDie piracy rings and similar illegal operations and the need to prosecute these criminals.
		DrinkOrDie is one of many highly structured, security conscious organizations that illegally reproduce and distribute thousands of copyrighted works around the world causing billions of dollars in losses each year.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/05-20-2002/0001731678 (386 words)

	DrinkOrDie member gets 33 months in prison - Computerworld
		A 24-year-old member of DrinkOrDie, one of the oldest international piracy groups on the Internet, has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for conspiring to violate criminal copyright laws.
		Christopher Tresco of Allston, Mass., pleaded guilty in May in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia of using his employer's computers to distribute copyrighted material, including movies, software, games and music, according to a U.S. Department of Justice statement (download PDF).
		This included DrinkOrDie's "drop site," a computer connected full time to the Internet that served as the workstation and initial distribution point for all the group's release work of copyrighted material, according to prosecutors.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2002/0,4814,73667,00.html (433 words)

	Member of "DrinkOrDie" Warez Group Sentenced to 41 Months (July 2, 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DrinkOrDie was a well-organized, security-conscious, Internet software piracy group that specialized in acquiring new software, "cracking" it (i.e., stripping or circumventing its copyright protections), and releasing the software over the Internet.
		DrinkOrDie consisted of approximately 65 group members from more than 12 countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, Norway, and Finland.
		DrinkOrDie's organizational structure classified group members in four categories in order of importance and responsibility: Leader or co-leader, Council, Staff, and general membership.
	www.cybercrime.gov /ob/Pattanay.htm (503 words)

	The TEXTFILES.COM BBS Timeline: 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DrinkorDie kept the location of its software-download sites a secret available only to members "and conducted business in closed invite-only Internet relay chat channels," the statement said.
		Calling groups like DrinkOrDie "techno-gangs," McNulty said such piracy "is a crime against the integrity of our electronic infrastructure." "John Sankus and his group knew what they were doing was illegal and they took every technological step possible to conceal their activity," McNulty said.
		John Sankus, Jr., of the piracy group "DrinkOrDie" is sentenced to 46 months in prison for his part in the copying of software through IRC and Internet channels.
	timeline.textfiles.com /2002 (1480 words)

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		Nawara, who used the screen nickname "avec," was a senior member of the warez courier group RequestToSend (RTS), a Council member in DrinkOrDie, and a leading courier for the warez group Razor1911, which specialized in releasing PC and console games.
		Pattanayek, who used the screen nickname "buj," was a Council member in DrinkOrDie and the group's top "cracker." Pattanayek had also been a senior member of the top warez courier group Request To Send (RTS).
		His principal role was that of "bot master," which in general terms meant that he developed automated computer programs, or enhanced existing programs, that were installed on group FTP sites and IRC channels to perform security and communication functions.
	www.be-cool.org /piracyconvictions.html (1099 words)

	p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Be that as it may, "The ruling could be a significant setback for US prosecutors, who have invested considerable resources into tracking down elements of DrinkorDie and other net 'warez' groups who distributed pirated versions of software, music and movies online, often before they were released commercially," says silicon.com here.
		A representative for the US Attorney's office in the eastern district of Virginia, which is leading the extradition proceedings, could not immediately be reached for comment.
		All other defendants in the DrinkorDie cases have been charged in their home countries, he noted.
	p2pnet.net /story/1077 (1019 words)

	Wired News: Were DrinkOrDie Raids Overkill?
		The U.S. Customs Service called the group "the oldest and most well known" of Internet piracy organizations, describing it as a loose affiliation of computer experts who operate as sleepers in our midst, ready to drop their cover and crack the latest copy of Photoshop at any instant.
		The group made its name in 1995 by cracking Windows 95 before it was released; since then, it has kind of disappeared.
		A search of the "binaries" newsgroups at Usenet, which is where many software-cracking utilities are traded, similarly illustrates DrinkOrDie's absence from the scene.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,49096,00.html (699 words)

	'Robin Hoods' in the dock over DrinkorDie - Government & Law - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
		DrinkorDie was an international alliance of software pirates, known as a warez network.
		It was said to be effectively shut down after a series of raids by law enforcement agencies worldwide in 2001.
		An attempt to extradite an alleged member of the group from Australia to the US failed in March 2004, but American prosecutors are still fighting this ruling.
	management.silicon.com /government/0,39024677,39125131,00.htm (625 words)

	DrinkorDie two convicted of software piracy - ZDNet UK News
		Two men who were accused of taking part in a massive global software piracy ring were convicted at the High Court this week.
		Dowd and Bell were accused of supplying software for DrinkorDie, a worldwide gang that cracked hundreds of software applications and made them freely available over the Internet.
		The High Court heard that DrinkorDie operated a sophisticated system where suppliers obtained software and passed it on to crackers who broke the software's copy protection.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /business/legal/0,39020651,39191687,00.htm (332 words)

	DrinkOrDie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DrinkOrDie (DoD) era red que negociaba subterránea el agrietarse y del warez de un software durante los años 90, cerrados por una incursión importante en 2001.
		DrinkOrDie fue fundado en 1993 en Moscú por un ruso con la manija "deviator" y amigo que fue por "CyberAngel." Antes de 1995, el grupo era global.
		Los archivos de DrinkOrDie, como la mayoría de los otros archivos del warez, incluyeron software del negocio así como películas incluyendo el potter de Harry y la piedra del filósofo, detrás de las líneas enemigas, los monstruos inc..
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/dr/DrinkOrDie.htm (380 words)

	DrinkOrDie
		DrinkOrDie was founded in 1993 in Moscow by a Russian with the handle "deviator" and a friend who went by CyberAngel.
		Bandido, has been involved in legal action in Australia involving possible extradition to the USA.
		The DrinkOrDie archives, like most other warez archives, included business software as well as movies including Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Behind Enemy Lines, Monsters Inc, and Spy Game.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/d/dr/drinkordie.html (280 words)

	DrinkorDie suspect to be 'extradited to US' \| Channel Register
		Hew Raymond Griffiths, 41, of Berkeley Vale, NSW, Australia, was indicted on one count of criminal copyright infringement and one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement by a Virginia grand jury last year.
		US investigators charge that Griffiths rose through the ranks to become leader of the infamous DrinkorDie piracy group, which released a pirated copy of Windows 95, days before its official release and has been getting up to similar antics ever since.
		Unemployed Griffiths is not accused of profiting financially from his alleged piracy, despite estimates that DrinkOrDie's copyright infringement cost publishers an estimated $50m.
	www.channelregister.co.uk /2004/09/07/drinkordie_extradition (423 words)

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