Federal authorities on Wednesday announced the crackdown of an alleged international video piracy ring that illegally distributed movies and television shows on the internet.
The Justice Department (DOJ) unsealed indictments charging three members of the international piracy group, known as “Sparks Group,” whose members used specialized software to compromise the copyright protections on authentic DVDs and Blu-Ray discs—a process known as “cracking” or “ripping”—and reproduced the content in a manner easily distributed on the internet.
