lets see: Sony sales last year =$56,500,000,000
to create a 1% decline in sales you'd need 400,000 folks to boycott them. Dreamland. If it makes you feel better, do it, but don't think for a second that they care.
In addition to the various suggestions already posted, you might put a lien against their house or car. It may not give immeadiate satisfaction but you cannot sell something unless you have clear title to it.
I suppose you might formally report the matter to a credit reporting company, that could screw him up.
As a last resort turn it over to a collection agency. God knows what you will end up getting, but it will be better than nothing.
Personally, I'd talk to the cops again. Find a Detective that investigates fraud. Probably better than that, write a letter to the Chief of Police, send them copies of the checks, and politely ask for action. Make a formal complaint of theft. They cannot ignore it. Probably one quick visit by a Detective would solve it.
Would it be possible for the (frightening) Carnivor system to hack into a machine a plant a keystroke reading program? Suppose that is what they did, and for that reason came up with the story of going in the guys house. They would not want anyone to know that they have that capability.
It has got to be possible, right? How else do virus mongers create Zombie machines?
Also, if you want true privacy use a very simple but virtually unbreakable system. Pick the words you want from a book, define the word by page and number of the word on the page, add some random digits, send. You could make it more difficult by using different books in 1 message.
Pros: unbreakable until virtually every book in the world that has ever been written is digitized.
Cons: what a pain! Also not generalizeable unless all of your buds have (or have access to)the same books.
Forsyth used this a plot element in "The Key to Rebecca".
I think that I have read most of the posted stuff on this topic. I have a few thoughts.
1) Folks have said that since in Russia this activity is legal, how can we charge him?
I am not really sure, but I recall a case about some european that went off to fool around with underage hookers in Thailand (?), went home, was outed and then arrested even though what he did was legal where he did it. Anyway, the law is silent on WHERE the infraction occured.
2) Check out the quote from section 1201 of the code:
(b) Additional Violations. - (1) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or OTHERWISE TRAFFIC in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that -
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of
circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that
effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this
title in a work or a portion thereof;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use
other than to circumvent protection afforded by a technological
measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner
under this title in a work or a portion thereof; or (BLAH, BLAH)
OTHERWISE TRAFFIC: This might refer to speech. Point being whether the stuff was sold or described, it is probably covered.
3) Writing representitives is useless. Anything that could be brought to bear by us would be as nothing compared to the crap from lobbyists that these jerks wade thru. If you insist on writing, send it fedex, it get at least some attention.
4) I think that if any thing should be written, it should be to the Federal Judge that has jurisdiction (ie. wherever he is being held). As a citizen you have every right and even an obligation to point out that there is an injustice. Lack of bail for a crime like this is rediculous. And by lifting his passport, he is not a flight risk.
5) geeks unionize?? Get real. However a professional association, with dues, could create a war chest for these kind of events.
6) Who is Dimetri's legal counsel? Whoever he/she is sucks. Should be in front of a judge, appearing on TV with the wife and kids and Russian ambassador, etc. This is a PR problem.
7) DMCA will not be repealed by congress. The only way laws get knocked out is via the Supreme Court. BY this thinking, our boy should tough it out. However I agree with a previous poster that the Feds have poisoned the case and it will never get there.
8) re. point 7: the Feds can create a chilling environment with the threat of a questionable law. Whould you care to be in the slammer for a few weeks under any circumstances?
9) Forget about Adobe: He broke a federal law.
10) A spokes persom is needed, Dimetri is sorta the proximal issue, but unless DMCA is knocked out there will be more Dimetris. I suggest getting to someone with a high profile like californias ex gov moonbeam to specifically break the law and carry the court case through. I would hope someone out there would have the integrity to engage in civil disobediance.
11) Some one said that our representitives are basically hard working...whatever. No. They are corrupt. Any elected official that accepts money in large doses from a corporation is indebted, period. If a CEO took "gifts" from a supplier, his ass would be in jail (a public company, that is;))
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lets see: Sony sales last year =$56,500,000,000
to create a 1% decline in sales you'd need 400,000 folks to boycott them. Dreamland. If it makes you feel better, do it, but don't think for a second that they care.
riddle me this: if i suspected that Sony was in violation of the dmca, could i get their isp to shut down their site? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm .....
In addition to the various suggestions already posted, you might put a lien against their house or car. It may not give immeadiate satisfaction but you cannot sell something unless you have clear title to it.
I suppose you might formally report the matter to a credit reporting company, that could screw him up.
As a last resort turn it over to a collection agency. God knows what you will end up getting, but it will be better than nothing.
Personally, I'd talk to the cops again. Find a Detective that investigates fraud. Probably better than that, write a letter to the Chief of Police, send them copies of the checks, and politely ask for action. Make a formal complaint of theft. They cannot ignore it. Probably one quick visit by a Detective would solve it.
here's a better one, tatoo the number in bar code format, makes check out a snap.
I yhink it was
Number Two: "You are, number 7."
Though you don't get that till the last episode. It sounded like:
Number Two: "You are number 7."
PIper Laurie
Would it be possible for the (frightening) Carnivor system to hack into a machine a plant a keystroke reading program? Suppose that is what they did, and for that reason came up with the story of going in the guys house. They would not want anyone to know that they have that capability.
It has got to be possible, right? How else do virus mongers create Zombie machines?
Also, if you want true privacy use a very simple but virtually unbreakable system. Pick the words you want from a book, define the word by page and number of the word on the page, add some random digits, send. You could make it more difficult by using different books in 1 message.
Pros: unbreakable until virtually every book in the world that has ever been written is digitized.
Cons: what a pain! Also not generalizeable unless all of your buds have (or have access to)the same books.
Forsyth used this a plot element in "The Key to Rebecca".
If I were mute and used my pc as a voice synthesizer, then my keystrokes would definately be speech, no?
I think that I have read most of the posted stuff on this topic. I have a few thoughts.
;))
1) Folks have said that since in Russia this activity is legal, how can we charge him?
I am not really sure, but I recall a case about some european that went off to fool around with underage hookers in Thailand (?), went home, was outed and then arrested even though what he did was legal where he did it. Anyway, the law is silent on WHERE the infraction occured.
2) Check out the quote from section 1201 of the code:
(b) Additional Violations. - (1) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or OTHERWISE TRAFFIC in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that -
(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of
circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that
effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this
title in a work or a portion thereof;
(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use
other than to circumvent protection afforded by a technological
measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner
under this title in a work or a portion thereof; or (BLAH, BLAH)
OTHERWISE TRAFFIC: This might refer to speech. Point being whether the stuff was sold or described, it is probably covered.
3) Writing representitives is useless. Anything that could be brought to bear by us would be as nothing compared to the crap from lobbyists that these jerks wade thru. If you insist on writing, send it fedex, it get at least some attention.
4) I think that if any thing should be written, it should be to the Federal Judge that has jurisdiction (ie. wherever he is being held). As a citizen you have every right and even an obligation to point out that there is an injustice. Lack of bail for a crime like this is rediculous. And by lifting his passport, he is not a flight risk.
5) geeks unionize?? Get real. However a professional association, with dues, could create a war chest for these kind of events.
6) Who is Dimetri's legal counsel? Whoever he/she is sucks. Should be in front of a judge, appearing on TV with the wife and kids and Russian ambassador, etc. This is a PR problem.
7) DMCA will not be repealed by congress. The only way laws get knocked out is via the Supreme Court. BY this thinking, our boy should tough it out. However I agree with a previous poster that the Feds have poisoned the case and it will never get there.
8) re. point 7: the Feds can create a chilling environment with the threat of a questionable law. Whould you care to be in the slammer for a few weeks under any circumstances?
9) Forget about Adobe: He broke a federal law.
10) A spokes persom is needed, Dimetri is sorta the proximal issue, but unless DMCA is knocked out there will be more Dimetris. I suggest getting to someone with a high profile like californias ex gov moonbeam to specifically break the law and carry the court case through. I would hope someone out there would have the integrity to engage in civil disobediance.
11) Some one said that our representitives are basically hard working...whatever. No. They are corrupt. Any elected official that accepts money in large doses from a corporation is indebted, period. If a CEO took "gifts" from a supplier, his ass would be in jail (a public company, that is