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Man Tracked Down and Arrested Via WoW
kabome writes with this excerpt from a story about an alleged drug dealer who was located by law enforcement thanks to World of Warcraft:
"Roberson’s subpoena was nothing more than a politely worded request, considering the limits of his law enforcement jurisdiction and the ambiguity of the online world. 'They don’t have to respond to us, and I was under the assumption that they wouldn’t,' said Roberson. ... Blizzard did more than cooperate. It gave Roberson everything he needed to track down Hightower, including his IP address, his account information and history, his billing address, and even his online screen name and preferred server. From there it was a simple matter to zero in on the suspect's location."
if those police had tasers, he would still be alive.
saying tasers kill is like people being afraid of getting immunisations or claiming condoms don't stop AIDS. they take the bullshit small chance of something going wrong and blow it out of proportion till they've convinced themselfs they are right.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
without them police have no option other then to shoot,
Sure they do.
It's morons like you who can't distinguish between appropriate use and abuse that just need to sit out of the conversation entirely.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Yes, but that is incredibly fucked up. Because there is no reason at all for this. And nobody has the right to tell another human to do with his body what he wants. But nobody of the retards ever even questions this? You know why?
Because there actually is a reason: The egocentric assholes who are so extremely dickish, that they won’t even let another human die, because that would prevent them from profiting from him anymore! And that’s the only real reason it’s illegal! Insurance companies, “family” (read “parasites), tax authorities, etc. They all want to continue bleeding you dry, and would go as far as trying to override the most basic of all human rights ever on this whole planet:
The right to do with your own body what you want.
Oh, and it’s a totally pointless law anyway. Because what do you wanna do when someone did it? Punish him? LOL. By death? LOL. Ridiculous.
And if it’s one of those cries for help, where one does not intent to really kill oneself, then what is needed is that HELP. Not some lawsuit/punishment that will make him try it again. This time properly, and without telling anyone!
Dumb, dumb, dumb. And one of the dickishest dick rules ever.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Hey dumbshit. Yeah, you ildon, you are a total dumbfuck.
Know why?
Because you quoted a period. Yeah, quoting a period makes you a total dumbshit. Because YOU MADE UP THE PERIOD.
It is not in the privacy policy.
That whole "BRING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST YOU" is followed by the word "if" NOT a period. None of the clauses that follow the word "IF" apply to this situation. It isn't like Blizzard just listed those clauses as examples, they are restrictions on the "BRING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST YOU" part.
Therefore Blizzard did NOT follow their policy to the letter or otherwise.
Now, here is my question to you - did you do that on purpose? Did you think that I had not actually read the entire sentence myself - despite having fully analyzed it over the last couple of comments? Did you think that was going to just slide by and you would convince me by lying? Or are you just an asshole out trolling?
I'm really curious what makes someone like you tick ... that they think such a blatant stupidity would even be worth posting? I get phantomfive, he's such a bootlicker he doesn't care about the truth and he's invested a whole lot of posts into denying the truth in this topic so I fully expect him to keep on denying it - he's a hopeless victim of his own cognitive dissonance. But you? You pop in out of nowhere with such an obvious lie that I just gotta wonder what the hell were you thinking?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
There is no POV that developed in a vacuum, only to become fixed when its child died of a hard drug addiction. There certainly are people who have lost loved ones that way, but they have also been told, ever since old dragnet episodes, that LSD, Psilocybin, and even Pot, are addictive and lethal narcotics just like the Heroin that killed their loved one.
Of course there's need to respect other people's POV's in a general sense, but all POVs are not remotely equal. If you are one one side or the other of a debate about rockets vrs space elevators, and some party enters the debate SHOUTING ABOUT GETTING TO THE MOON ON GIANT SWANS,, your first goal is not to accept the validity of that POV, it's to get the moron to either stop shouting the rest of the debate down or get educated fast, or both.
Right now, Organized Crime LOVES the drug laws we have. They know how to exploit loopholes that keep their own employees in line and use the laws to go after their less organized competition. Every single person shouting for tougher drug enforcement is inadvertently standing next to a Mob boss, Mafia chief, or other racketeer, and giving them support. Now just how far should people who have figured this part out go in respecting the POV of the ones that haven't?
Of course, the blanket pro legalization group has as many idiots as the blanket anti side, and I'm not personally advocating blanket legalization at all, but these people are not really doing the shouting, just sounding like stoned freaks who end up obscuring the rationalists on their putative side. If we shouldn't respect the Cheeches and Chongs out there, we should have even less respect for those who are still shouting "Tougher drug laws are the answer!"
Who is John Cabal?