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Fairlight (FLT) is a warez and demos group involved in the Commodore demoscene and release of games 1987.
The group was busted on April 21, 2004, 8 months after the group returned from their temporary retirement that started on June 9, 2003 and ended on August 30, by a Federal Bureau of Investigation operation called " Operation Fastlink".
Police forces from eleven countries were involved, arresting about 120 people and seizing more than 200 computertower of a personal computer. A computer is a device for making calculations or controlling operations that are expressible in numerical or logical terms. While factually accurate, this definition and those found in other dictionaries are so broad that ths (including 30 servers). One serverIn telecommunication, the term file server has the following meanings: # A high-capacity disk storage device or a computer that each computer on a network can use or access and retrieve files that can be shared among attached computers. A computer program from the U.S. raid contained 65,000 pirated titles which were alleged to be in the archive repository of the group.
The operation has been coordinate by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit and the Business Software AllianceThe Business Software Alliance BSA is a trade group representing a number of the world's largest software makers. It is funded through membership dues based on member company's software revenues and through settlements from companies it successfully bring and took place in 27 states. In the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly, seven computers have been seized and 3 arrests made in Belfast, Manchester and Sheffield. In SingaporeThe Republic of Singapore ( Chinese , pinyin: Xinjiapo Gonghegu Malay Republik Singapura Tamil , Cingkappur Kudiyarasu , is an island city-state in Southeast Asia, at latitude 1°17'35"N longitude 103°51'20"E, situated on the southern tip of Malay Peninsul, 3 people (22, 30 & 34 years old) were arrested. In the NetherlandsDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium two university servers have been investigated by police officers. Other arrests and seizures have been made in BelgiumFor alternate meanings, see Belgium (disambiguation). Belgian redirects here. For the horse breed commonly used as a draft horse, see Belgian. The Kingdom of Belgium ( Dutch: Belgi French: Belgique German: Belgien is a country in Western Europe, bordered, DenmarkKongeriget Danmark ( In Detail) Motto of the Queen: Guds hjaelp, Folkets kaerlighed, Danmarks styrke (English: God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength) Official language Danish Capital Copenhagen Kobenhavn Monarch Margrethe II Prime Ministe, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, and Sweden for a total of 11 countries.
According to rumors, the raid occurred just before the warez group released the game. The game was released by other groups (iNSOMNiA ( Xbox and PlayStation 2) and Razor 1911 ( IBM PC)) a few days later.
The last massive warez-related raid prior to Fastlink was Operation Buccaneer against DrinkOrDie in December 2001.