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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. pr0n by haa...jesus+christ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who has time to look at $10,800 worth of pr0n?

    Taco, some things in life you make time for.

  2. Oh man! by dmarien · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry I wasn't able to post sooner regarding this story, but I got home from school, and all my computer shit was confiscated! I had to go next door just to check my e-mail!

    This blows, and shit -- is my friends cable internet connection really this slow?

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  3. Re:And they needed the FBI for this? by daniel_isaacs · · Score: 5, Funny

    True. But why take the PC's? The bandwith isn't on them. :)

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  4. Re:And they needed the FBI for this? by zbuffered · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw fine them a total of damages + (damages * 3), plus give them 90 days in the can each.

    I say we fine them damages + (damages * 4) - damages. You can call me apologist if you want, but damages + (damages * 3) is just too much!

    Oh, and no more than three months in jail. None of that draconian 90 days stuff. Let the punishment fit the crime.

    ;)

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  5. Re:And they needed the FBI for this? by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    "True. But why take the PC's? The bandwith isn't on them. :)"

    Probably because the FBI saw the "The Internet" icon on the desktop and thought they had stolen it.

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  6. Yet Kenneth Lay hasn't been charged with ANYTHING by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see, steal billions, defraud 401K pension plans, no problem. Steal otherwise-unused bandwith, get arrested.

    Yep, One Nation, Under God has sure served as a good moral compass these last 48 years.

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