Petteri Pyyny
27 Feb 2003 1:15
One of the biggest institution in so-called "warez scene", ISONews.com, has been busted by the FBI and in rather controversial move, the domain name now points to Department of Justice's servers.
According to DOJ, ISONews.com was charged because it sold modchips for XBox and PS2 through its site -- which is actually slightly bizarre claim, since as far as most people have pointed out, they actually just had advertisements of other companies' modchip sites running on their site.
Anyway, the site's owner, 22-year-old David Rocci, has pleaded guilty in December to charges against him under the controversial DMCA law. The discussion on the real ISONews.com site continues, but the access to the site can be achieved only by using the direct IP address of the site. The site was popular because it listed all the latest piracy releases available in the newsgroups -- although nothing could be downloaded from the site itself. You can visit their site here.
Source: News.com