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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:Couple questions by Foofoobar · · Score: 1, Troll

    Guilty? Define guilty? Did he do what they said he did? Of course he did... we all do. But does he regret it? Probably not. But I'll bet he regrets getting caught.

    As I always say, the law only applies to those who get caught. Everyone else gets to do what they want.

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  2. Why are you going to prison? by aminorex · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since you have physical freedom, you could now
    leave U.S. jurisdiction, and thus avoid prison.
    33 months in a federal prison is much worse than
    death. You could have an excellent quality of life
    in any number of relatively free nations such as
    China. Why are you condemning yourself to torture?

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    -I like my women like I like my tea: green-
    1. Re:Why are you going to prison? by aminorex · · Score: 1, Troll

      Relative to the U.S., which is quite similar to
      Nero's Rome in many respects, right down to the
      fasces.

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      -I like my women like I like my tea: green-
  3. 'one of those evil "software pirates" ' ??? by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 1, Troll

    Please, slashdot, don't try and cheapen what the guy did. He committed a crime, got caught, and is now going to jail for it. Though you may think "all software should be free!" or some other similar bullshit, what he did was illegal.

    - A.P.

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    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
  4. Don't you just hate by roman_mir · · Score: 1, Troll

    Don't you just hate the pathetic questions that this so called "community" is preparing for you? Don't you just wish them all to go to the can with you or better yet instead of you?

    Why don't you just run from the mother-fuckers? Fuck it all. Let them look for you in Canada or somewhere in Europe. Don't you have DoD frien^H^H^H^H^H links all over the globe where you can find safety? Don't you think that the US policy and lawmakers should get their asses ripped by some fucking rapists in the places you are going to. and not you? Fuck 'em all. Just take off man.

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    You can't handle the truth.