Warez Scene Member Sentenced to 18 Months Jail - GoFuckYourself.com

Aussie Rebel · 09-20-2008, 04:02 AM

Interesting Indeed......

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A member of the pioneering warez group aPOCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW (aPC) has been jailed for 18 months. Barry Gitarts, also known as ?Dextro?, was sentenced after he was convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Criminal Copyright Infringement. Thus far, there have been 15 convictions of aPC members.

aPOCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW (aPC), was thought to be first organized ?warez? group to coordinate the pre-release uploading of mp3s to the Internet. Founded in 1997 by members known as acid^rain and Viper, aPC?s forté was the pre-release of music CDs which they obtained from music industry insiders and magazine workers. The group was raided as part of Operation Fastlink.

aPC

According to evidence presented at his May 2008 trial, Barry E. Gitarts, aka ?Dextro?, operated and financed a server based in Texas which was used by aPC to store thousands of music files, movies, software and games. The New York resident was convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Criminal Copyright Infringement.

On Friday, Gitarts, aged 25, was sentenced in Alexandria federal court to 18 months in jail for his role in aPC.

Another ex-member of aPC, Jacob Stahler, aka Lunatik, was on the witness list at the May trial, and there has been speculation that he testified against Gitarts. Stahler himself was also convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Copyright Infringement, but was later sentenced to just 2 years probation.

So far there have been a total 15 criminal convictions of aPC members, including that of Mark Shumaker of Florida (aka ?MarkAlso?), a previous leader of the group who already admitted criminal copyright infringement back in 2003.

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Zorgman · 09-20-2008, 04:33 AM

1 big jail bird family of warez dudes.

budz · 09-20-2008, 04:56 AM

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Fletch XXX · 09-20-2008, 05:00 AM

fact: in New orleans often murderers are let go after 60 days, they even have local gangster rap songs about "60 day homicides"

murderers get less time than warez guys LOL

Fletch XXX · 09-20-2008, 05:02 AM

because some wont believe me, here is article backing up my 60 day homicide claim

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpa...140.xml&coll=1

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On street corners and in the grungy holding tanks at parish prison, they have another name for it: "701," shorthand for Article 701 of the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure. It states that no one can be held longer than 60 days on a felony arrest without an indictment.

Sometimes a 701 release merely eliminates a bond posted by a suspect in order to remain at liberty pending a trial. But in other cases, the 701 springs a murder suspect from jail because prosecutors have failed to meet the 60-day deadline, and that's been happening with astonishing frequency -- a tenfold increase -- in the widely criticized New Orleans criminal justice system since Hurricane Katrina.

you can kill people and get less time than a warez trader in this country

budz · 09-20-2008, 05:03 AM

budz · 09-20-2008, 05:07 AM

because some wont believe me,

shark laser · 09-20-2008, 05:15 AM

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haha reminds me of trading amiga500 games with my friends @ school a loooong time ago haha

JamesK · 09-20-2008, 09:11 AM

Wonder how Dextro is going to manage in prison.

Net Money · 09-20-2008, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by JamesK

Wonder how Dextro is going to manage in prison.

He will soon to be Bubbas bitch....LMAO

alex_1980 · 09-20-2008, 09:24 AM

I remember not sleeping for days copying stacks of floppies back in the old C64 days using one 1541 floppy drive. Then my neighbor would bring his drive over too....dual drives were the r0x0rz

mrwilson · 09-20-2008, 09:28 AM

heh sucks for him.

Bojangles · 09-20-2008, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

fact: in New orleans often murderers are let go after 60 days, they even have local gangster rap songs about "60 day homicides"

murderers get less time than warez guys LOL

Haha. Sad.

SilentKnight · 09-20-2008, 09:37 AM

One down...tens of thousands more to go.

marketsmart · 09-20-2008, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Net Money

He will soon to be Bubbas bitch....LMAO

he's going to federal prison... he wont be anyones bitch.... he will be hanging out playing tennis and getting a suntan....

Bojangles · 09-20-2008, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by SilentKnight

One down...tens of thousands more to go.

Very true.

zoltie · 09-20-2008, 09:58 AM

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow

sortie · 09-20-2008, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

fact: in New orleans often murderers are let go after 60 days, they even have local gangster rap songs about "60 day homicides"

murderers get less time than warez guys LOL

They get 60 days only when the victim is a copyright infringer.

lazycash · 09-20-2008, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

because some wont believe me, here is article backing up my 60 day homicide claim

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpa...140.xml&coll=1

you can kill people and get less time than a warez trader in this country

Lol, that happens in every city, if the prosecutor fails to meet the burden of proof for an indictment in a set time period then they can't continue holding someone and you can't call him/her a murderer if they haven't been proven guilty yet. Now if you'd said their overloaded system is causing some suspected felons to be set free because they don't have the resources and time to prosecute then that might have been plausible.

Supz · 09-20-2008, 10:15 AM

"POCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW (aPC), was thought to be first organized ‘warez‘ group to coordinate the pre-release uploading of mp3s to the Internet. Founded in 1997"

There was definitely organized warez groups before 1997.

marketsmart · 09-20-2008, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by lazycash

Lol, that happens in every city, if the prosecutor fails to meet the burden of proof for an indictment in a set time period then they can't continue holding someone and you can't call him/her a murderer if they haven't been proven guilty yet. Now if you'd said their overloaded system is causing some suspected felons to be set free because they don't have the resources and time to prosecute then that might have been plausible.

yes, but this is only for murders against people the city considers "low priority"... like gang violence, poor on poor, etc..

let someone middle class or above get murdered and the DA will make sure they get everything filed on time...

even though N.O. has a high murder rate right now, its almost all gang/drug related...

BSleazy · 09-20-2008, 10:33 AM

Do these guys even make any money doing that shit?

Fletch XXX · 09-20-2008, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by lazycash

Lol, that happens in every city, if the prosecutor fails to meet the burden of proof for an indictment in a set time period then they can't continue holding someone and you can't call him/her a murderer if they haven't been proven guilty yet. Now if you'd said their overloaded system is causing some suspected felons to be set free because they don't have the resources and time to prosecute then that might have been plausible.

Did you bother to even read the article?

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Three days later, Morgan was arrested. Sixty days after that, he walked free on a 701 release, leaving the case cold and now closed. The reason, prosecutors noted for the record, was that they never received a police report within the 60-day period. That's the same reason the other seven murder cases from the same seven-month stretch in 2005 tanked.

Jump to July 2006. The two men accused of trying to kill police officer Kevin Thomas in Algiers during a post-Katrina looting spree were released from jail after almost 10 months in jail. Prosecutors say they knew about the case all along but couldn't make a case given the deficiencies of the post-Katrina era

Not a damn thing to do with "burden of proof" - read next time...

after katrina they let thousands of criminals go because they couldnt even house them, let alone worry about guilty or not...

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In the eight months before the hurricane, the city released 187 people on a 701, including eight murder suspects, prosecutors' records show. In 2006, the number of releases soared to about 3,000. And last month alone, 580 people escaped legal custody of either jail or a bond obligation only because prosecutors couldn't pull together a case ahead of the deadline imposed by law.

the other big thing is witness intimidation, its a small place. You rat on someone here, your family get shot.

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Prosecutors and police blame a lack of witness cooperation for derailed murder cases, and Criminal District Court is littered with files that are dead on arrival when a witness backs out or disappears.

you can try to take up for these criminals, but around here, you know these people are guilty, many have been arrested MULTIPLE times for MURDER dude.

the police are still running cases out of TRAILERS, there isnt even a CRIME LAB in NOLA LOL

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The lack of a local crime lab is taking a toll on the system and the crime rate, he said.

But hey, yeah it happens in every city, but not quite like its happening here...

read next time: http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpa...l=1&thispage=3

Fletch XXX · 09-20-2008, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by marketsmart

let someone middle class or above get murdered and the DA will make sure they get everything filed on time...

I had a friend get shot in the chest by a shotgun walking to his car after work... robbed for less than a $20 - died on a sidwewalk of NOLA. Its not all drug related.

they never got the killer, and there was even a protest of people walking the streets - no suspect ever found.

Fletch XXX · 09-20-2008, 10:44 AM

the fact still stands - people who would normally go to trial for murder are being let go because of a broken criminal system... but hey, trade a movie or two and you go to prison for 10 years

You cant change or deny that,...

Fletch XXX · 09-20-2008, 10:46 AM

heres the web site for my boy

http://www.remembertheking.com/

alex_1980 · 09-20-2008, 10:48 AM

sortie · 09-20-2008, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

Not a damn thing to do with "burden of proof"

If the cops can't get a charge filed in 60 days then I bet they couldn't prove it either.

Fletch XXX · 09-20-2008, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by sortie

If the cops can't get a charge filed in 60 days then I bet they couldn't prove it either.

Again, another person who doesnt read -

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That's why perennial murder suspect Garelle Smith was out on the streets of New Orleans in December, said Craig Famularo, the district attorney's chief of homicide division. Smith, 25, was arrested on suspicion of gunning down rapper Soulja Slim, aka James Tapp, in 2003, but was sprung on a 701 release when no charges had been brought within 60 days.

Both of Smith's prior murder raps disintegrated because witnesses wouldn't come forward, said Famularo, a former officer and longtime prosecutor. "These were not cases of a lack of cooperation between police and prosecutors," he said.

http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/defe...s/louisiana210

you people are very eager to take up for people who have been apprehended MULTIPLE times for MULTIPLE murders, they get off because of witness intimidation, nothing else...

go ahead and side with them I wont.

Now I am done here, got me thinking about my boy and how a murderer is still on the streets who took his life.

Fuck anyone who sides with a fucking murderer.

pornjudge · 09-20-2008, 11:08 AM

Now, the question is, what prison do you send these geeks to. Maximum pen? Geeze they will get their asses raped big time.

Bubba is going to ask the geek, warez is the soap

Klen · 09-20-2008, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by SilentKnight

One down...tens of thousands more to go.

More likely tens of millions,you forgot pirates from China.

Klen · 09-20-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by supzdotcom

"POCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW (aPC), was thought to be first organized ?warez? group to coordinate the pre-release uploading of mp3s to the Internet. Founded in 1997"

There was definitely organized warez groups before 1997.

They reffering to groups which started first to pirate mp3(music)

Bojangles · 09-20-2008, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

I had a friend get shot in the chest by a shotgun walking to his car after work... robbed for less than a $20 - died on a sidwewalk of NOLA. Its not all drug related.

they never got the killer, and there was even a protest of people walking the streets - no suspect ever found.

Horrible.

marketsmart · 09-20-2008, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by pornjudge

Now, the question is, what prison do you send these geeks to. Maximum pen? Geeze they will get their asses raped big time.

Bubba is going to ask the geek, warez is the soap

yawn.... its federal... they go to a fed country club.... there is no ass raping there.. its where you go to learn white collar crime......

tical · 09-20-2008, 05:05 PM

damn that is old school

i was one of the first few members of RNS when it started (before APC came along) & it was a courier group... good ol days, easily 10 years ago

Manowar · 09-20-2008, 05:08 PM

not the apc!!!

VeriSexy · 09-20-2008, 06:35 PM

Sucks to be him

mozadek · 09-20-2008, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by alex_1980

The percussion for the song was lifted from a James Brown break, wonder if the creators of the video got permission to use it.

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