According to German newspapers, the main suspect, Bernhard S, was in charge of bookkeeping and finances. The three of them offered fileservers in the Netherlands, Russia and the U.S.A. Customers could pay with credit cards or directly through their banks. For $15, customers could download three movies or for $135 they could download all they wanted in a month. Among the movies were Telesync and CAM copies, which are basically movies recorded with digital cameras in theatres; telesyncs would have either direct audio or audio from a DTS theatre disc. The men made over $1 million, most of which went through an offshore company on the Virgin Islands.
The operation was discovered by a curious hacker after gaining access to the fileservers. A list of customer accounts was found and is now in Police possession, more arrests may follow.
Source:
The Register
Written by: James Delahunty @ 17 Sep 2004 17:11
