I basically just went to work and home, I didn't want to do anything that would make me vulenrable to eavesdropping or the like. I shutdown the bots, our dumpsite, and got off IRC. Tell everyone." Disoriented, I'm like WTF? Raided? What happened? He told me his brother got arrested, and I can kind of fill in the blanks. I get a call from my friend 'Bill' at like 5AM and all he says is "We got raided. This computer just happened to have mIRC on it (w/o blowfish), some un-pre'd rips, a HUGE collection of SCENE releases, IM logs, tons of stuff. They came and arrested 'Jim' and also seized ALL of the computers in the house. Abouut 2 hours later my friend's house gets RAIDED. Well Jim (my friend's brother) suspects something is up with this dude, and initially agrees, then changes his mind. I don't know how much a QP of meth is, but I know it's a lot. So Jim has a guy come over who randomly asks to buy a QP of meth. I mean EVERYONe in that house knew he was being watched by the cops, and they dismissed it. anyway, Jim is having surveilence done on him, and it's pretty well known. Jim would sell meth to people out of his brother's house (settlement money) and physcially and emotionally abuse his own brother. So we resume our normal operations, and something incredibly coincidental, and REALLY crazy happened: my friend 'Bill' 9who is handicapped I remind you) had a brother 'Jim'. It was temporary until we decided we were safe. We had initially frozen all releases and leeching by our members (to keep our IP's from showing up in logs) for a few days. Ok, so after we had all read and seen the other guy who had been busted (I think he was from EGO, but I'm not 100% on this one) and realizing that no one knew him, or had talked to him, we should be safe to continue pushing rips. We were NOT using Blowfish at this time (fucking stupid) We were all already a bit on edge (60% of my group at this time lived in the same city) Just 2 weeks before, in our local paper, some other guy in a MUSIC release group had been busted by the FBI as part of an ongoing investigation. My "friend" that I will call 'Bill' was physically handicapped. It's kind of long, but I think it's a pretty interesting look at the craziness that I was a part of: Ok, here's the "almost got busted & oh shit we're fucked now" story.
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