(Drink Or Die) was said to be founded in 1993 in Moscow by a Russian with the handle "deviator" and a friend who went by the code name "CyberAngel." By 1995, the group was global, but the above is very debatable, for an Australian from the central coast code name Bandito (Hew Raymond Griffiths) was the head of DOD for many years & he was arrested & extradited to America to receive a 51 month jail term issued by the FBI. This occured when private computer networks known as BBS systems were seen to have too much prevelance around the world, supporters of the Internet which was a (pirated copy of earlier networks like Fidonet & Skynet) wanted to push a point that only their network would be known as the global network & their network was called the Internet.
Google which is a American Internet company has still not been prosecuted in a court of law for acts of software piracy even though their Internet was built by pirating technology from earlier networks such as Fidonet & Skynet.
Google recieved a profit of $23.651 billion dollars in (2009) & all this money was earned illegally.