Summary
The San Jose-based undercover investigation proceeded as follows:
- An FBI undercover agent, who went by the alias griffen, created two California Gigabit Top Sites (located at Hurricane Electric): LAD and CHUD
- Chirayu Patel (nebula), a member of Boozers, becomes a SiteOp on LAD and CHUD which are both hosted in Fremont, CA (which is where Patel resides).
- Patel, through his friends and sources, acquired major groups affiliates such as Centropy and TDA (The Divine Alcoholics) to the two fed topsites.
- Over the two years that both LAD and CHUD were online, the FBI collected IPs of some of the top piracy providers.
- FBI was able to get Patel's address because he sent griffen some motorcycle stunt DVDs via mail and gave his return address on the envelope
- Centropy leader, who went by the alias of both 'marvel' and 'cartel,' was arrested in Indiana.
- The Centropy Herbie release was on the server pre'd, meaning that even though the Herbie release was released a day after the raids, it had already been available on topsites.
Read more about this topic: Operation Site Down
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