United Software Association
- United Software Association
The United Software Association (USA) was a prominent warez organization which released games and software for the IBM PC platform during the 1990s. USA formed a co-op with the PC warez division of Fairlight which was best known as ""USA/FLT". USA was formed as the result of a split of several members from another noteworthy PC group, The Humble Guys (THG). Key members, such as Genesis and The NotSoHumble Babe, left THG, eventually resulting in bad blood between to two groups and public displays of animosity. [http://www.defacto2.net/NFO/1991/10/Willy%20Beamish%20Hints-FLT-USA.txt]
USA had a subdivision known as "USA-DoX" which was responsible for transcribing or otherwise typing up documentation to accompany a release. This division was also carried over by Genesis from THG, which previously had its own documentation division known as "HumbleDox". [http://www.textfiles.com/piracy/SOFTDOCS/bic-sol2.dox]
In the news
In late January of 1992, several members of USA, including Mike Arnolds (The Grim Reaper) and "Amy" (The NotSoHumble Babe), were busted by the United States Secret Service (in cooperation with the Farmington Hills Police and Michigan State Police) for "carding" (credit card fraud). [http://www.textfiles.com/piracy/bustnews]
External links
* [http://www.phrack.org/phrack/38/P38-04 Pirate's Cove, Issue 2] , Article from Volume 4, Issue 38 of Phrack which details the USA busts. Written by Thomas Oliver, aka Rambone. (Rambone was later busted as part of Operation Sentinel in 2002. [http://www.cybercrime.gov/rothbergSent_pirates.htm] )
* [http://www.textfiles.com/piracy/usabust.txt USABUST.TXT] , an anthology of resignation letters and related text files put together by Shadow PhanTom of the Unassociated Free Press surrounding the TGR and TNSHB bust which devastated USA. Includes resignations from several top ranking members of the IBM PC warez scene.
* [http://www.defacto2.net/groups.cfm?mode=detail&org=usa United Software Association file and information repository on Defacto2]
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