Omg, close anyone?
Can't believe you guys still argue about this bullshit, lol..
For those that think aXXo (btw. not him, them, as it's a RLS-GRP) gets paid for their releases,
you should join some scene forums and learn a little more about filesharing..
aXXo is not the best but hes a good guy.
best releases are ones encoded with x264 might not be on torrents but warez u can warez-bb.org then cryptload
It's possible he embeds PPI .exe's with his torrents, but I'm not sure if he does it or not.
I'm sure they have some source of income otherwise how could they afford 50 DVD burners for ripping, and such that was found in their bust. I'm certain they get paid by torrent sites to upload as they are so well known, if someone see's Jailbreak 2009 by some random kid then [aXXo] Jailbreak 2009, which do you think they are going to choose. And as for the hackers do it as a passion statement, this is half true but most hackers hack for profit when they can.