
member of one of the oldest and largest international software piracy
rings on the Internet.
Sabuj Pattanayek, a student at Duke University known by his screen
nickname ‘Buj,’ was a council member and a highly skilled ‘cracker’ for
the online software piracy group DOD. DOD was a well-organized,
security-conscious, Internet software piracy group that specialized in
acquiring new software, ‘cracking’ it (i.e., stripping or circumventing its
copyright protections), and releasing the software over the Internet.
DOD consisted of approximately 65 group members from more than
12 countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden,
Norway, and Finland. ...