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Raisethefist.com Raided

Posted by michael on from the poking-the-anthill dept.

mfb and others wrote in about a raid on the operator of raisethefist.com last week. It was first reported on Indymedia.org here and here, followed by an LA Weekly article. By far the best news piece so far is this one from Newsbytes.

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  1. Hey! Don't slashdot this site! by jaxdahl · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the site:

    NEWSFLASH raisethefist.com is running out of current allocated bandwidth. In just two days we have used over 130MB of data transfer. The limit is 512MB per month. That means we will run out of bandwidth in less than a week. If we do, the site will be shut down indefinitely. We need to move to another web host in order to keep the site up and updated with official information for its visitors. If you would like to donate space, the e-mail contact information is on the bottom of this page.

    I think it's a bad idea to link directly to his site.. We could end up costing him a lot of money in bandwidth terms.

    1. Re:Hey! Don't slashdot this site! by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > > raisethefist.com is running out of current allocated bandwidth. In just two days we have used over 130MB of data transfer. The limit is 512MB per month. [ ... ]
      > I think it's a bad idea to link directly to his site.. We could end up costing him a lot of money in bandwidth terms.

      1) L33t d00d defaces websites and acknowledges that he knew doing so was illegal.

      2) L33t d00d posts denial-of-service tools on the defaced websites.

      3) L33t d00d then whines about his bandwidth bills arising from the Slashdot effect.

      Payback's a bitch, ain't it, skr1pt k1ddi3?

      There's only one fist that needs to be raised here, and the FBI knows exactly where to raise it. And after the FBI's finished reaming out his bank account, I hope his bandwidth provider takes whatever's left.

  2. They're kidding, right? by BadDoggie · · Score: 5, Funny
    Who needs the FBI and a warrant to shut down a site? Post the URL here and the effect will toast the place. We kill sites for an entire month when they have transfer limits, even when we like them.

    woof.

    Move along now, nothing to moderate here.

  3. The real reason they arrested him by darien · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the Newsbytes story: "In the interview, Austin said he did not write the bomb instructions but instead copied the pages from another site."

    Never mind incitement to violence - this guy's a copyright violator! Let him fry, I say.

  4. Thoreau vs. this moron by gdyas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thoreau, in Civil Disobediance, explained that philosophically it's right to disobey what you honestly feel is an unjust law. In doing so though, one needs to be willing to accept society's punishment for its violation.

    In comparison, doesn't this whiny punk who's spent too much time in the 2600/Mother Jones/High Times section of the magazine rack seem a little lacking? No matter though. I'm sure his bunkmates in Leavenworth will show him the meaning of passive resistance.

    --

    The only tool you've got against psychosis is experience.

  5. Re:violently overthrow the Constitution? by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 4, Funny
    Columbia: 2 billion dollars to fight leftist guerillas who are trying to win better conditions for the poor while the right wing wealthy landowners who they're opposing pump drugs into America and bullets into peasants.


    Gosh, I had no idea what conditions at that Ivy school in upper Manhattan was really like...!