Internet meets RealWorld

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granny

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Just noticed that isonews is no more and the krazy8 is facing 5 years incarceration for selling modchips.

Now before this turns into the same old tired debate about the morality of warez I'd like to state that I am not condoning illegal software piracy at all, I just think it's a fairly pointed reminder to people that the real world is rapidly catching up with what used to be seen as the seperate world of the internet...

Added to the recent evidence of movie studios and the RIAA starting to take a far more proactive anti-piracy stance I think a lot of people are going to have to start being a lot more careful in the future...

Shame about isonews though, I mean, whatever you thought about krazy8 (making money out the 'scene' etc blah blah) him & the rest of the isonews people did manage to keep a pretty useful & successful webby going in extremely difficult circumstances for a long time.
 
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Lester

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I just clicked on that link and now there's two guys in suits outside my door. Thanks a lot! :eek:
 
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granny

Guest
Uh-oh :/

There's a black helicopted that's been hovering outside my window for 10 minutes now, think it's related?
 
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Lester

Guest
Mr Lester cannot reply right now. I'm .......his friend. Perhaps you could give me your address so we might.......discuss piracy further.
 
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nath

Guest
Tbh, the us government needs to hire some better website designers.
 
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stu

Guest
Those damn illuminati jewish mafia are poisoning your minds with lead and arsenic from mirror scrapings. The council of 11 are leading us into the second holocaust. The evidence is right there on a folded 10 dollar bill! Always remember! Never forget.

As you rightly pointed out though granny, he got done for flogging XBox mod-chips, and gave up isonews in a plea bargain. The current state of legality of modchips is unclear to say the least - the US Supreme Court says "bad!", the Australian High Court says "good!", and our boys say "hmmm... dunno?". Plus when you consider XBox modchip sales are about 5% of PS2 ones, I wonder where all the pressure's coming from (although Sony's done its fair share of bullying as well). In time honoured tradition, keep juarezing stuff for yourself and I doubt anyone will care - try to make a profit from it, and you'd better watch your back.
 
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Will

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Originally posted by stu
...try to make a profit from it, and you'd better watch your back.
If you do anything they disapprove of, even if it is legal, and you do slip up, you are looking at the maximum jail term, rather than the minimum.

Which sucks, but he must have known the risks he was taking.

Granny is right though, the real world is catching up as the great interweb is available to more and more people. I guess its something we'll have to learn to cope with.
 
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Miles_Binck

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if its all true the US DOJ need to get people who are more clued up, its easy to take over a domain, but they forget the important one...

http://66.201.243.170/


and they need better web designers :D
 
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Tom

Guest
When they nick people for selling dodgy alchohol or ciggies, they don't arrest the people buying them. Piracy is the same, the most you can expect is confiscation (of pirated material) - and how many people's homes would they have to invade?

It will never happen. Laws only punish the vendors, not the consumers.
 
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Tom

Guest
BTW I just noticed that 'getaway from stockholm 3' is out, and I'm 'cough' getting my copy 'cough' right now.
 
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stu

Guest
Originally posted by Miles_Binck
if its all true the US DOJ need to get people who are more clued up, its easy to take over a domain, but they forget the important one...

You know what a plea bargain is, yeah?
 
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Daffeh

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anyone got a new resource for my....erm...release dates...thats it :)
 

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