Echelon ASCII art logo designed by Rotox of ART.

Echelon is a warez group which specializes in the release and distribution of console games, such as Sega Dreamcast and Sony PlayStation 2 ISO images. Image File history File links Echelon_NFO.png Echelon ASCII NFO header logo by Rotox of ART. (Amiga ASCII) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Echelon_NFO.png Echelon ASCII NFO header logo by Rotox of ART. (Amiga ASCII) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ... A street vendor packing up his display of counterfeit CDs after being photographed. ... The Sega Dreamcast (Japanese: ドリームキャスト; code-named Blackbelt, Dural and Katana during development) was Segas last video game console. ... Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (TYO: 6758 , NYSE: SNE) is a global Japanese consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ... An ISO image (.iso) is an informal term for a disk image of an ISO 9660 file system. ...

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. Trainers are programs made to modify behaviour of a computer game, usually using addresses and values, in order to allow cheating. ...

In January 2001, Sega announced that the Dreamcast was to be discontinued by the end of the year; this was the end of Sega's last foray into the home console business. Rampant piracy is often cited as one of the major reasons for the failure of the Dreamcast (but the validity of this claim is uncertain). Echelon was single-handedly responsible for the bulk of pirated games released for the Dreamcast console platform. Sega (セガ) is a video game software and hardware developer, and a former home computer and console manufacturer. ... The Nintendo GameCube is an example of a current generation video game console. ... The copyright infringement of software refers to several practices when done without the permission of the copyright holder: Creating a copy and selling it. ...

In 2004, Echelon was named as a target of Operation Fastlink by the United States Department of Justice. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Operation Fastlink was a coordination of four separate, simultaneous undercover investigations by the FBI, the FBI Cyber Division, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the Criminal Division and Interpol. ...

On December 19, 2001, Echelon released their first of several hundred Playstation 2 titles: Final Fantasy X. As of 2005, Echelon continues to release games for the PS2 platform [1]. Final Fantasy X (ファイナルファンタジーX Fainaru Fantajī X) is the tenth title of the Final Fantasy role-playing game series and the first installment of the series released on the PlayStation 2. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• Dreamcast
• Kalisto
• The iSO News [2]
• United States Department of Justice press release [3]

Sega Dreamcast The Sega Dreamcast (Japanese: ドリームキャスト; code-named Katana during development) was Segas last video game console. ... Kalisto logo by eNf. ... The iSO News is a warez news website originally created by David Rocci. ...

External links

• New2Cracking
• Reteam
• Again Home Page
• Echelon article on Everything2.