- Supposedly a HUGE operation (sting, bust, etc) going on at Utwente (.nl,
  Twente University). One of the admins there says that a lot of logging is
  going on. All x3 rated sites are there. Lots of shells, sites. Most of the
  couriers use it. Euro sites depend on it. The USA side of couriers depend on
  RIT. These two universities were the mothership.

- RTSMP3 currently shutdown, but will return in the future

- There was Four boxes at MIT's Economic department (one of the boxes weighed
  175 pounds!). Fatal Error, 1.2 terabytes -- it had new and classic DivX,
  PS2/PSX/DC, VCD, and ISO game archive. Lake of Fire, 400GB -- it was a MP3
  archive. Packet Storm, 600GB -- it was an util archive. Then at least one
  other box for a drop site for DOD and another group. The three main boxes
  were not affiliated with any other group, but rather private sites for DOD.

- aPC (mp3) member said: "we're just relaxing and letting time do the healing.
  sooner or later everything will be back to normal"

- EGO (mp3) still very active. Latest release: Lil Bow Wow, full album

- RNS (mp3) still very active. Latest release was today: 2pac, full album

- RogueWarriorz, a very secretive group, was infilitrated by an FBI agent.
  RogueWarriorz is a collection of members from other groups with access to
  over 40 sites. The membership was roughly around 70. The FBI operated the
  site out of Las Vegas. The agent pretended to be two people, Shatter and
  Twisted. The site was called ShatNet. Other sites from RogueWarriorz are The
  Egg Carton, which receives EGO and DGN pre's. Elisa ran it from San Jose edu.
  ShatNet was the FBI site. A few members of the group told me his icq # is
  95996443. He's Special Agent Ray Leber from the Las Vegas FBI Field Office
  (702-385-1281). The US Attorney investigating this is Matt Parrella
  (702-388-6336).

- Mindscape (mp3) has temporarily ceased operations

- Shark was a police officer in Sydney, Australia. He wasn't an informant
  though, but rather a target of the busts.

- BUSTED: HiTech666 (ex-PWZ/ex-FTS/ex-Razor 1911/Myth/Deviance/RTS, Montreal,
  Canada), jozef (RogueWarriorz, Canada), Elisa (EGO, RogueWarriorz), Bierkrug
  (RogueWarriorz), Lord Hacker (RogueWarriorz), Axxess (RogueWarriorz), Waldorf
  (RogueWarriorz), Demonfurby (RogueWarriorz), Dr Infothief (RogueWarriorz),
  doodad (pop), tenkuken (dod), eRUPT (author of ruptbot, dod, miami), doc-x
  (dod council, miami), heckler (TiL), zielin, sui (tfl/wlw), hackrat
  (wlw/razor/dod, california), shark (wlw/razor/dod; RatzHole siteop,
  Australia), thraxis (not busted; but raided -- 700 cds and computer; risc,
  pgc, dod, queensland, Australia), maverick (from skidrow, not from omega; dod
  council), sony, bandido (razor, dod council, risc council), eriflleh (dod
  council, philadelphia), bigrar (christopher tresco 23 y/o, dod council, risc,
  ex-MnM, ex-PSF (Proper Stuff), boston), avec (former fts, rts, rise, former
  DOD council, razor), buj (cracker; dod council, former rts senior, razor,
  former corpgods leader, ex-PGC, Durham North Carolina), forcekill (dod, turku
  finland), radsl (dod, popz founder, oregon), chevelle (dallas), billyjoe
  (austin), ievil (dod, razor, an ircop, had retired already, Arnvid Karstad),
  superiso (inferno; got raided), ^stealth (oregon), BaLLz (CSR)

- sui got busted and he's from TFL. WLW now dead

- 150+ sites closed

- Only 41 mp3 releases for today, RNS and KSi haven't stopped. Most european
  dance groups closed their chans.

- BaLLz from mp3 group CSR got busted. Unclear whether reason was mp3-related
  or iso-related.

- WLWMP3 permanently shut down

- Checkpoint, the official dupecheckers, is just temporarily down. "checkpoint
  will be down until we know what exactly happend. you can help be sending
  infos to xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx. but ONLY write a message if you are 200% sure that
  it's true. we do NOT need any new rumours."

- CHECKPOINT IS DOWN!BadGirl posted the URL to checkpoint, the official
  dupechecker, and as a result they shut it down completely. Proof it's down
  via this screenshot (update: link removed).

- BadGirl was accused of narqing on a site in Germany. They got her purged from
  most sites and deleted from Checkpoint. She use to be in TR, a mp3 release
  group.

- REV mp3 has ceased operations

- SSE (mp3) ceased operations until atleast New Year's

- PNF (mp3) temporarily closed but with message: "we won't stop"

- Alpax Team (Dreamcast and mp3) has cease operations temporarily