Echelon (warez)

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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.^{[citation needed]}

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 [1].

In 2004, Echelon was named as a target of Operation Fastlink by the United States Department of Justice. [2]

[edit] References

• Dreamcast
• Kalisto
• The iSO News [3]
• United States Department of Justice press release [4]

[edit] External links

• Echelon article on Everything2.