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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"
OK, I am not sure why everyone seems to be falling for this, but it looks to me to be very fake. The page doesn't even look official. For one thing, the DOJ probably wouldn't steal the old ISONews logo and put it at the top of the page. They also probably have a better copy of their own logo than the crappy clip-art one at the top as well. (Although, maybe not if you take cybercrime.gov as any indication)
Another good thing to notice would be that there don't seem to be any specific laws or statutes mentioned. It's pretty standard practice to cite those when you can recite them in your sleep like the guys at the DOJ.
Seems much more likely that someone just hijacked the domain or hax0red the server to me.
If a modchip can be used to circumvent copyright protections (and it can), then it's a circumvention device and therefore illegal in the States. Same as DeCSS and all that.
I just got this new cracker that can actually circumvent copyrights in books! It's called "ocr." Also, I circumvent even more copyrights with a thing called a "photcopier."
If you don't understand any of my sayings, come to me in private and I shall take you in my German mouth.
EFF?
SlashDot has so-o-o-o-o romanticized that organization, to the point now that we are supposed to regard them as some kind of cyber-digital Lone Ranger/Zorro amalgam.
I've been following their progress since the early 90's, and I just don't get it. As best as I can glean, they've thrown some great cocktail parties. I mean, we all have that non-lawyer's respect for their esquires and DC addresses, but I've seen no indication that any lawyer or lobbyist or legislator or corporation on "the other side" takes these EFF guys seriously.
Of course, I'm sure that if we all donate just a little more money to them, everything will be just fine. sh'yeah.
I'm beginning to think that our great burning desire to have some white hat organization to turn to has over-powered our collective bullshit detectors...
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.
I agree completely.
I also believe that Pez(TM) are a truely harmful substance for today's society. No legalization of these harmful hyperactivity-inducing sugar substances is possible. Many children have lost good teeth to these vile abominations, and they must be destroyed and removed from the face of this good Christian America we all call home.
Thank you, citizen. You've alerted me to the true horrors in the world.
Sincerely,
J. Ashcroft
Fully licensed blockchain psychiatrist
"Prohibition gave rise to the mob"
It is a specious argument at best, that a causal relationship exists between prohibition and organized crime. The government grossly underestimated the task of enforcing the prohibition of alcohol. Today, the DEA budget is 11 billion dollars. That would have been approximately 800 million 1930 dollars. Today, we understand the magnitude of such a task.
Mayor Laguardia was arguing in favor of a repeal of the 18th amendment when he said "It would take a police force of 250,000 to enforce the Prohibition Act". I wonder how he would respond to today's police force of 650,000?
"anti-drug laws created more problems then they ever solved."
There may be evidence to support that opinion, but the vast majority of the public adamantly disagrees. Federal drug policy has been a success. Drug use has been reduced by 50% since 1982, and cocaine use alone has declined by 75% since 1987.
My recommendation is for Alcohol to be placed under DEA control as a Schedule II narcotic, and Tobacco under Schedule I. By eliminating these two deadly exceptions to Federal anti-drug laws, the DEA can operate without being criticized for hypocrisy. Also, the ATF can concentrate on controlling explosives and firearms.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
I don't care how on topic it is.
It wasn't funny. The all your base thing ceased to be funny on its own about 2 years ago.... Then the variations on it.... even saying stuff like "All your funny are belong to 2 years ago" and "Someone set up us the dead horse" stopped being funny about a year ago....
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>Why not? Because the people don't want it, or
>because the Imperial Federal Government won't
>allow it?
Both. The people who protest for reform are in denial about this, but the vast majority of Americans support the current policy. In situations where the people did successfully decriminialize controlled drugs, for example California 215, the Federal government rejected the States' authority to pass such laws.
>>Our society does not tolerate the use of
>>dangerous drugs.
>
>False! Alcohol use and abuse is tolerated.
>Furthermore, marijuana is not a dangerous drug.
If our society tolerates the use, manufacture, and distribution of dangerous drugs, why would we spend $11 billion dollars this year alone in attempting to suppress them?
>>Federal enforcement of drug control regulations
>>is a success.
>
>False! The government can't keep drugs out of
>prisons. What makes you think they do a good job
>keeping it out of the hands of non-inamtes?
Your opinions are not shared by your representatives in Washington, nor by the majority of your countrymen. I take it you have personally tried to obtain narcotics in prison and succeeded? While I am sure that there are ways to get whatever you want in prison if you try hard enough, I would also suggest that you not count on it yourself if you happen to find yourself there.
>[T]here is no evidence that anything outside of
>education is any more than marginally effective
>at getting people to not use some drugs.
Precisely. But I cannot think of a better way to illustrate that point, than by applying the Federal government's case consistently, rather than making the arbitrary choices of what is allowed, and what is not, that we see today.
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.