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"

Comments

This looks very fake

[bluntmanspam]

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.

Re:so make a bong from

[fishbowl]

"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.