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Yes, I live in Virginia and have been following the case closely. If you scroll down several posts below this one you'll see I also posted this.

Your post is currently at -1, like all your recent posts. What did you do? Capitalize too much?

THE SISTER WAS WRONGLY ACCUSED. The brother was the spammer here. He used his sisters credit card to purchase stuff over the internet to fund his spam business. Due to it being in her name she got dragged into the case by an overzealous prosecutor. The judge CORRECTLY fixed this error on the jury's part. THE SPAMMER IN THIS CASE WENT TO JAIL(the bother) I wish the friggin posters would RTFA sometimes...

A quick search using Google News makes me think you're right... the judge cited that the only case against the sister was the three credit card transactions with her name on them. And siblings are known for committing ID theft- what can you really do to your brother or sister? Other than kick his ass, but so what?

Just one more reason why you don't want people stealing your identity.

If you RTFA (yeah right), you know that the main spammer, Jeremy Jaynes, remains convicted.

It is his sister, Jessica DeGroot, who had her conviction overturned. Unfortunately, TFA is rather short on details.

It goes on explain why DeGroot's conviction was overturned. The only piece of evidence that the prosecutor presented against her is a credit card statement showing purchases of those domain names used by the spammers. However her lawyers contend that it doesn't prove that she actually made the purchases; her brother or someone else could've used her card to purchase those domain names.

...the local online rag is talking about the fact that Jeremy Jaynes' bond has been set at $1M. But concerning the "harsh sentence" thing, yes, as stupid as it sounds, a lot of people think it is harsh.

It's education, all over again... people don't realise that "if you don't like it, just delete it" is a totally bogus answer.

...the local online rag is talking about the fact that Jeremy Jaynes' bond has been set at $1M. But concerning the "harsh sentence" thing, yes, as stupid as it sounds, a lot of people think it is harsh.

It's education, all over again... people don't realise that "if you don't like it, just delete it" is a totally bogus answer.

Just what we need, more clueless rich people bored with their hummers looking for another way to endanger the rest of us...

Federal Agents Raid Leesburg Home

"Some neighbors reported being told by agents that the investigation involved a copyright issue."

But if the agents really are jack-booted thugs, do we take them at their word? (Assuming the neighbors got it right in the first place.)

Most of you people who use it ought to be serving life sentences in prison for using it too since three felonies (3 counts of DMCA violation) is three strikes. You people are criminals and support such monsters as Sklyarov, Felten, Corely, etc. so don't except any support on this one. The DMCA is here to stay and much more restrictive legislation is on it's way so get used to it. There is nothing you can do about it. This is a socialist country which means that anything which increases the scope of the government is the norm. Quit being a criminal and learn to obey the law and report criminal monsters like copyright violators, illegal gun owners, drug users, libertarians, people who quote the constitution etc to the authorities. People who do the above are terrorists. If you don't believe that the government doesn't consider them to be terrorists then why did THIS happen if they don't consider it terrorism?

Check this out. DMCA enforcement in action.