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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. Re:33 months ... by reallocate · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It is his fault if he steals something. Whether or not people buy software has nothing to do with it. If you take something that doesn't belong to you it's theft. The only way you can argue that it isn't is to deny people the right to own property. Even if you worship at the Church of Free Software, that doesn't give you the right to steal software released under another license.

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