Operation Buccaneer is an ongoing 14 month world wide anti-piracy operation. It first made news around a year ago with the arrest of many members of the oldest “Release Group” DoD (DrunkorDie) is one of many groups that crack software, mostly games. This was big news in the scene when it happened since DoD was one of the most respected and well know of the groups.
Well Operation Buccaneer has struck again taking out two major groups by arresting one. The group that was busted this time was Razor911. Friday June 15th, Shane Pitman a 31 year old man from N.C. was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Pitman, know as “Pitbull” to the rest of his group, was convicted of “conspiracy to violate copyright laws“. U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty said, “Pitman’s conviction and sentence should send a strong message to organized Internet gangs like Razor1911 that stealing and illegally distributing game software online is not a game.” “Pitbull” is the 22nd person convicted as a result of Operation Buccaneer.
People who follow the “Video Game” arena of the release groups are very familiar with a group that goes by “Fairlight”. They constantly supplied quality releases of the hottest titles. If it was Fairlight you could expect top notch quality. Well recently they released this .nfo It contains this message from the group.
It has been a good few years, but it is now time for Fairlight to close its doors for good. Many reasons have made us come to this judgment but we feel it is for the best. The scene is getting to be a dangerous place… read the full story here.
