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Uncap Your Modem, Get Visit From the FBI

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the important-work-these-folks-do dept.

FlightSimGuy writes "The Blade wrote this article about how seven men were arrested by FBI agents with guns drawn and indicted by a local grand jury for allegedly "reconfiguring computer systems to access excessive amounts of bandwidth". Apparently the provider, Buckeye Cable Systems, wanted to make an example out of the men. According to the company's attourney, "Cyber crime is potentially very damaging to society. We are taking a firm position on that type of criminal activity. We hope these cases will have a deterrent value...""

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  1. frist psot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hay!

  2. New businessmodel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) Write free software.
    2) ?
    3) Get Visit From the FBI
    4) Profit!

    Or was it

    4) Go to jail!

    1. Re:New businessmodel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      2) Sell the service of gay-sex instead of the actual software itself.

  3. Fr0$7 p1$7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Word to your domestic partners, fuqtards!

    -TPH

  4. Old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I could have sworn I read this months ago.

  5. We hope these cases will have a deterrent value.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yup.. I wouldn't use them. Isp Nazis.

  6. Re:guns drawn -- only in America by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That country is completely fucked up.
    It's all guns and handcuffs.

  7. Re:Use Protection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm circumcised.

  8. Re:I had do do that! Mod this dude up Funny! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    mod this guy up thats Priceless!

  9. Re:Wrong design by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wot?