Roughly 30 suspects have been arrested in the latest government raids on the DrinkOrDie piracy network, seizing more then 200 hard drives in more then 100 campuses and corporate raids. College campuses are the focus for most of the investigation, college students have more bandwidth, more storage space, and little network security to monitor the evil deeds of drunken downloading college students. “DrinkOrDie members stashed pirated software at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Duke University, the University of Oregon, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Los Angeles.”
If a suspect is found guilty of piracy (distribution of copyrighted material), individuals can serve more then 7 years per piracy count, a figure some say is too little for the damage it causes. The Customs Service estimates that major piracy networks such as DrinkorDie cause more then 95% of the total piracy problem. Worldwide piracy costs consumers more then $1 billion dollars per year, a figure the Justice Department wants cut in half.
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