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FBI Raids Homes and Seizes Bandwidth Pirates' PCs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-thats-not-very-fun dept.

Saturated Subnet writes "Recently in Toledo, OH FBI agents and a local police task force raided 13 residence and seized 23 computers. Some users of the local cable broadband provider had uncapped their cable modems." It appears to be a smaller ISP, and the article says these 23 people cost them a quarter of a million bucks. Who has time to look at $10,800 worth of pr0n?

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  1. Re:And they needed the FBI for this? by shakah · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do you have a problem with prosecution for theft of services?

    Do you think it will be difficult to make a case that the alleged thieves could reasonably have been expected to know that uncapping their modems and "stealing" bandwith was illegal?