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IsoNews Ostensibly Shut Down By The DOJ
According to Yahoo News and also Cyber Crime The longest running news site for Piracy has been turned over to the Department of Justice. Stating David Rocci AKA krazy8, has recently plead guilty to selling modchips via his website http://www.isonews.com with profit of $48,000. Now the domain has been linked to the Cybercrime Site warning all pirates all there that modchipping is not a game. [chrisd] In case you needed a reminder...you don't own your hardware. Eff? That said, this is not 100% positive, and there are rumors of the old site floating around on other ip addresses out there.
In related DOJ web hijinks..joemite writes "Cannabis News released this article about how the DEA is seeking to redirect indicted businesses that sell glass bongs and pipes to the DEA's website. "If the court orders the sites to be redirected, Ashcroft said, they will point to a DEA.gov Web page that says: "By application of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, the Web site you are attempting to visit has been restrained by the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania pursuant to Title 21, United States Code, Section 853 (e)(1)(a)."" Also check out an analysis of the entire situation by Richard Cowan"
here is what I get when I got to isonews.com. Maybe it's just an issue of the DNS servers not updating soon enough (assuming the DOJ just changed the address).
The IP address on that is 66.201.243.172, it apears to be a virtual host
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Since when were modchips illegal?
"I can't drive 55. It only goes 38."
Our society does not tolerate the use of dangerous drugs. Federal enforcement of drug control regulations is a success. Alcohol is a dangerous drug, and the people have consistently shown an inability to use it without causing death and destruction. If you have a medical reason for using alcohol, then you should be able to get a prescription for it. Otherwise, possession and sale should be treated exactly like the other dangerous drugs.
Sorry chief, but prohibition has already been tried. If you think you can just ban alcohol, there are a select several hundred pub owners that would have a word with you.
As for me, I enjoy a nice cold beer, straight from the tap. I don't drink excessively, and I do it because I enjoy the taste. And no, you cannot make non-Alcoholic brew taste like the "real thing." So take your lack of personal accountability stance and go shove it up your ass.
Someone gets drunk and kills someone in a car? Go kill em for fucks sake, but stay away from my beer because I, like many others, do not become dangerous when I drink.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
All your bases are belong to us.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
I have three issues with this, apart from siding with the obvious "modchipping for all" stance, which is being voiced by everyone here.
1. They should have kept the old design if all they can come up with is the Times font on a blue background. Seriously, I thought isonews was 0wn3d and the kiddiez had a sense of humor for a change.
2. They seem to be infringing on the copyright of whoever created the IsoNews logo. Unless Krazy8 had the rights to it and signed it over to shave off a hour or two from his sentence.
3. Finally, they say that:
"The Iso News" is now the property of the United States Government.
Well, that's not true either. I just checked, and you can register "theisonews.com".
Seriously, what the hell do they think they are doing? In a month from now, Isonews will be back up at a new DNS name and back in busines with 2x the traffic thanks to all the press they get now. Isonews was not doing anything illegal, apart from selling modchips - but the illegality of that is quite questionable outside the Land of The Free (TM).
Well screw the government and thier "warez" scene. Its enough to make me want to develop my own mod chip and buy an XBox just to say that I have. Since when can't we mod our hardware? Since when does copyright transcend every other law ever?
Oh right. DMCA.
~geogeek