[wodenokoto]

When I was a kid you could buy these monthly warez CDs full of games and professional software.

The gang producing them got so overwhelmed with burning CDs in their basement, that they went to a factory in Germany.

Police looked at the serial number on the CD, went to the factory and asked who the customer was and that's how they got busted.

[Semaphor]

When I was a kid, I distributed warcraft 3 beta cracks from our ISP webspace (20 MB, unlimited traffic, fast speeds made my mirror one of the most favored), Blizzard didn't even need the police and just made our ISP call my dad at work to stop it ;)