written this article after reading a few letter which show that some readers seem to know little about piracy on the Internet. I don’t know everything about piracy on the net, but I would go so far to say that I know a fair bit about it.

First off, piracy isn’t just a few guys who work at cinemas and software stores taking the odd film or game home and sharing it on their home FTP servers or KaZaA.

Piracy on the Internet, or “the warez scene” (as those into it like to call it) is surprisingly organized. Pirated software/games/movies/ anything are called warez and will referred to as that from now on.

The Piracy “Food Chain”

Top

Warez/Release Groups – People who release the warez to the warez community. Often linked with Site Traders.

Site Traders – People who trade the releases from the above groups on fast servers.

FXP Boards – Skript Kiddies who scan/hack/fill vulnerable computers with warez.

IRC Kiddies – Users of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) who download from “XDCC Bots” or “Fserves.”

KaZaA Kiddies – Users of KaZaA and other p2p (peer to peer) programs.

We’ll start at the bottom.

KaZaA Kiddies At the bottom of the piracy food chain we have the KaZaA Kiddies. There appear to be two groups of these KaZaA Kiddies. First, the 13 year old kids with broadband downloading the odd mp3 here and there because they can’t afford outrageously overpriced CDs from stores. Harmless kids, costing no one any real money, pursuing their musical interest. Also, these are the people being labeled “pirates.” These are the ones “Killing the Music Indus- try.” These are the ones who are being sued by the RIAA for thousands of dollars.

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