FBI's Newest Elite Unit: The Code Case Squad

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The FBI has joined forces with NCSoft to execute a super-top-secret-ultra-dangerous-multi-city shutdown of L2Extreme, a company running its own unauthorized Lineage II servers and boasting up to 50,000 active users. It's unclear how the L2Extreme proprietors got access to Lineage II code (speculation is that it was leaked to them), but what is clear is that NCSoft's counsel and the FBI are taking this kind of unauthorized reproduction or use of copyrighted code seriously-the FBI aren't making the charges public and conducted a series of raids and interviews across the U.S. before the crackdown.

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