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Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy

Posted by Roblimo on from the don't-do-the-crime-if-you-can't-do-the-time dept.

Chris Tresco is one of those evil "software pirates" cybermoms warn you about. He was a sysadmin at MIT, and also a member of "the secretive Internet software trading ring known as 'DrinkOrDie'" who got caught by the DoJ's Operation Buccaneer, got convicted, and was sentenced to 33 months in prison on August 16. Chris has a little time left on the outside before he goes away and has agreed to spend some of it answering your questions, so ask away. (Usual Slashdot interview rules.)

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  1. Hmmm by DrNibbler · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does he have a copy of Visual Studio.Net?

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  2. Quick request by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can you get me a free copy of Office XP before you go?

  3. Would you like to by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Buy some Steel Underwears for the next 33 months ?

  4. The most important question... by unicron · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bitch or Butch?

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  5. Re:"The Bust", WarGames or Matrix? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It was more like "Hackers", when his mom started kicking his ass and he was begging the cops to take him away.

    "Con Air" documents his prison days, looks great in a dress too.

  6. Swapping things with your inmates by Subcarrier · · Score: 5, Funny

    In prison you will have to barter for every little luxury. Having something of value to trade can be a matter of life and death.

    Do you think your experience with swapping things will help you fit in?

    What are your strongest assets on the prison market place?

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  7. Re:Do you wish you'd raped someone instead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Depends on your sorting algorithm.

  8. FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What do you think of this random string of characters?

  9. Re:Couple questions by MaceSoul · · Score: 2, Funny

    So paying $50 for a copy of Battlefield 1942 only to find out it on work on ANY of my 5 PC's and they won't let me return it because I opened it IS RIGHT?!?!?!? What's morally correct about releasing a patch for the game before the game itself knowing full well half the people that buy the game have no chance whatsoever of getting it to work? I'm crying rivers here, by the way, you want to buy a barely used copy of Buttfuck 1942?

  10. Re:Couple questions by Fred+Ferrigno · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have never sucked a cock, although as a teenager I probably tried to reach my own.

    "Probably"? Wouldn't you know better than anyone?