Echelon (warez)

Echelon (warez)

Echelon is a warez group which specializes in the illegal release and distribution of copyrighted console games, such as Sega Dreamcast and Sony PlayStation 2 ISO images.

Between September 4, 2000 to April 30, 2002, Echelon's Dreamcast division released 188 game titles and 34 other various fixes, tutorials, trainers, and loaders.

On December 19, 2001, Echelon released Final Fantasy X as their first of several hundred PlayStation 2 titles. As of 2007, Echelon continues to release games for the PS2 platform [http://www.nforce.nl/index.php?switchto=nfos&menu=quicknav&item=search&search=true&group=ECHELON] .

In 2004, Echelon was named as a target of Operation Fastlink by the United States Department of Justice. [http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/fastlink.htm]

References

* Dreamcast
* Kalisto
* The iSO News [http://www.theisonews.com/release.php?releaseid=48757]
* United States Department of Justice press release [http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/fastlink.htm]

External links

* [http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1232657 Echelon article] on Everything2.


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