首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
In a scene repeated at some of the nation’s most prestigious universities over the last week, students and employees have found
In a scene repeated at some of the nation’s most prestigious universities over the last week, students and employees have found
admin
2010-03-19
47
问题
In a scene repeated at some of the nation’s most prestigious universities over the last week, students and employees have found themselves face-to-face with federal law enforcement agents offering them a choice: Talk to us about thrill-seeking software piracy gangs or face a prison cell.
The Customs Service, which is conducting the questionings, said many of the students and university employees were cooperating with the inquiry, which is being described as the largest criminal investigation of software piracy ever by the federal government.
Investigators say the inquiry has expanded exponentially since it was announced late last week with raids at several universities, including Duke, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Los Angeles, and on the offices of several software and computer companies around the country.
In the days since, many of the people under investigation, which includes executives at software companies, have quietly begun cooperating. Their information led to raids on at least one other university, the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
Law-enforcement officials said more raids were imminent as they tried to shut down a multi-billion dollar international piracy ring that had stolen everything from the latest version of popular office software to digitized versions of new hit films and had shared the software around the world through Internet sites, such as the latest version of the Windows operating system, Windows XP, and such recent Hollywood fare as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and Behind Enemy Lines.
Investigators say some of the software appears to have been stolen by executives and other insiders at the companies where it was made, which explains the raids on corporate offices.
Customs officials said they believed that their efforts had shut down the piracy gang, known as the "DrinkOrDie" network, and that other, similar piracy gangs were being investigated. The Customs Service estimates that DrinkOrDie has more than 200 members around the world.
"We were able to totally dismantle DrinkOrDie," said Kevin Delli-Colli, the director of the Customs Service Cyber Smuggling Center in Fairfax, outside Washington. "Most of the leadership has been exposed by the investigation." A Web site that had been used by the network to share software, www. drinkordie, com, was shut down last week.
Law enforcement officials say that the results of the investigation so far, which is being called Operation Buccaneer, continue to support the theory that the ringleaders of the network were motivated by thrill-seeking, rather than by profit, but that their crimes have allowed others to profit from the sale of pirated software. No arrests have been made so far, because the Customs Service is trying to persuade more suspects to cooperate in exchange for leniency.
Operation Buccaneer has proved that some of the software piracy rings seem to be only
选项
A、cooperative.
B、thrill-seeking.
C、profit-making.
D、name-dropping.
答案
B
解析
根据提问,应注意有关的评论。文章的第一段中调查人员向有关的人士提出一个问题或者选择:Talk to us about thrill-seeking software piracy gangs or face a prison cell。还有后面最后一段里调查结果也表明这些侵权盗版分子不是以追求利润为目的。support the theory that the ringleaders of the network were motivated by thrill-seeking, rather than b
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/Hr9K777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Whywasthewomanworried?
Manystudentsfindtheexperienceofattendinguniversitylecturestobeaconfusingandfrustratingexperience.Thelecturersp
Manystudentsfindtheexperienceofattendinguniversitylecturestobeaconfusingandfrustratingexperience.Thelecturersp
Anearlytypeproducedlettersquicklyandneatly;thetypist,______,couldn’tseehisworkonthismachine.
Educatortodayaremoreandmoreoften【C1】______tosaythatcomputerliteracyisabsolutelynecessaryforcollegestudents.Ma
Educatortodayaremoreandmoreoften【C1】______tosaythatcomputerliteracyisabsolutelynecessaryforcollegestudents.Ma
That’sdefinitelynotwhatIsaid.Youarepurposely________myideatoproveyourpoint.
DuringhisSaturdayweeklyradioaddress,heurgedCongress______evenifhevetostheirbudgetproposal.
Theevolutionofsexratiohasproduced,inmostplantsandanimalswithseparatesexes,approximatelyequalnumbersofmalesan
Wouldyoumind______usaloneforafewminutes?
随机试题
上市公司:跨国企业
下列属于输入设备的是【】
把“保护和增进社会福利”作为企业目标内容的企业价值观发展阶段是()
已知f(x)=+3bx+5,当x→∞时,求a和b的值使f(x)为无穷小量.
上皮重度非典型增生是
能调节唾液的量及渗透压的结构是
吸入粉雾剂中的药物微粒,大多数应在多少μm以下
以下属于记账凭证会计核算程序优点的是()。
()的发行主体是中央政府,通常被认为不存在违约风险。
广义相对论认为,空间一时间本质上是物质客体的广延性和持续性,它本身不是独立存在的。这一思想由于其革命性和数学形式上的深奥性,在一段时间里不为科学界所接受。但由于得到越来越多的实验证实,今天广义相对论已被公认为研究大尺度时空的理论基础。这些实验不包括(
最新回复
(
0
)