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Man Convicted For Helping Thousands Steal Internet Access

Posted by samzenpus on from the free-web dept.

angry tapir writes "An Oregon man has been convicted of seven courts of wire fraud for helping thousands of people steal Internet service. Ryan Harris, 26, of Redmond, Oregon, was convicted by a jury in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He faces a prison term of up to 20 years and a fine of up to $250,000 on each of the seven counts."

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  1. Re:And what about the people on the end? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    (though really, there's a standard loan terms sheet that comes with every loan, it isn't hard to read)

    Thats easy to say, but in fact is not true.. the loan 'agreement' will be written by lawyers with the express intention of making it difficult to read by non-lawyers, and the company who wishes to fuck you over will pay somebody more to make it especially difficult because that way they can extract the maximum profit from the 'deal'.

  2. Putting into perspective.. by 3seas · · Score: 0, Troll

    Join the U.S. military go to another country kill many many civilians and maybe get a medal.
    Morally I'd rather commit wire fraud by giving the people information access.
    Ethically, Id spend my time exposing excessive profiting of telecommunications.

    If enough of us do this we can start our own country within a country, different than the country of Washington DC... as it'd be much bigger and we'd have our own fence, food, clothing, shelter, medicine, even security, etc.... paid for by those in the outer country. And the diff from DC would be... not having the command to order the kill of many many people w'd never meet.

    Wire fraud huh? What if it we wireless?