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Cable Box Piracy Ring Busted
WC as Kato writes "The U.S. Attorney's Office said it has busted a huge cable piracy ring. They made over $10 million in 5 years by advertising on the Internet and in magazines. Their only cover to the illegality of their actions was a disclaimer that the boxes were not illegal to own. Police say customers who purchased them are now at risk of being arrested. Did any customer actually fall for their 'legal disclaimer?'"
If it looks like a binding legal agreement it must be one. *cough* eula *cough*
Two guys got arrested. Big news, indeed. What a huge ring!
:^D
Was it "The One Ring", by any chance?
And now for some karma whoring: "in Soviet Russia the ring arrests you!"
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640K should be enough for anyone.
-- Bill Gates, 1982.
I see your 2 cents and raise you a dime...
they do! just in the cases when they stop at $5M, and never get caught, you do not see thm in the news. that's the main reason for stopping at $5M - not to be caught, not to make it to the news. vajk
Seriously foolks, how does one "steal" cable? Did they back a truck up to the back of the cable company building and steal a spool of cable?
Oh, you mean they're "stealing" information? But but but... INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!!!
These people are LIBERATING cable, not "stealing" it!
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
blue blackground, gilbert gottfried holds a letter
"dear directtv
i made millions selling fake cable boxes. these boxes aren't legal they say? lies! lies!
sincerely, joe schmoe"
applause
"did i capture the guys anger?"
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
> This "if your signals penetrate my airwaves then they belong to me and I can do whatever I like with them" argument really is flawed.
Like the old Benny Hill skit where a woman leans over his fence and he thinks that gives him a right to grope her tits.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
At the rate things are going, $640K won't even be enough to get my children through college.
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
Reminds me of the stock market in 1999 / 2000. "Sure, I know that there is a bubble. But it is highly improbably that it will burst right now..."
"Please, someone cut off my hand for typing 'combinating.' That last would have been so nice a note without it..."
Got bad news for you. You used *both* hands to type that...
A.
...bringing you cynical quips since 1998
Hurray. I can own a gun, but I can't own a hacked cabled box.
At the rate I read /., I won't have children to put through college.