there is a cross section of that tree in the boston museum of science on display, its neat, it shows historical events on the rings of the tree check it out if you can
yes, i have had several people mention to me to move to linux, i will but it takes some time to learn, when i get the time to figure it out some though i will be using it
ok so it was originally posted anonymously well, i agree with it, and seeing as it isnt COPYRIGHTED, i will post it here in direct response and not from a coward
The very nature of computers is to make copies, you stupid ***holes! Are we going to have speech licences next? "Sorry you are not allowed to repeat anything that anyone else has said because someone holds the copyright on that thought. Off to the concentration camp with you." That's THIER wet dream isn't it.... Total criminilization for all TODAY! Make all "crimes" a federal offense, punishable by 10 years in prison. Create laws so that everyone no matter how young, old, or lazy can become and endentured servant to the system forever. I don't know what irks me more, the feds and lawmakers for doing what they do OR people on here that disagree with thier actions, yet are willing to give lip services and puss out by saying, "well he was dumb and deserves what he got since he got caught." you people truely have no spine
in retrospect that what i should have been doing, i was getting off on the whole robin hood aspect of warez, and prolly left my site open more often that i should have
i was actually very stealthy compared to others, and also relativly small time, after all i only had a 5 gig drive, how much can u do with that? the reason i got caught is because my school called the fbi instead of me to resolve this, thuis costing you the taxpayer, more money, i wasnt being stupid, i was being as stealthy as i could for what i knew, using a strange port, not up 24/7 and NOTHING could ever at any point be downloaded from anywhere except a secure non anonymous ftp server, and no the address of it was not on my website, there was nothing on my website, there was an excel list on my shell
o i read some of these more now and want to reply some...if you didnt read my earlier one, i am jeffrey gerard levy, first off... some people have asked, why him? well first off all i was using ALOT of bandwith on my universities network, sometimes sustaining 500 kbps overnight, sometimes nothing, but i was using a lot and they noticed at the computer center, then they found an excel list of some mp3s and warez that was on my shell but not with no links to it from my webpage, they obliviously were monitoring every file i sent to my shell and when they found that, they overeacted and called the fbi instead of being reasonable and calling me up and telling me to cut it out (which i would have done immediatly and permanently), so instead the U of O has cost the taxpayers of oregon an unecessary costs associated with my legal journey...also, i was NOT selling anything, i was trading and one of the reasons i got caught also is that i was trading vcd's and isos which took up a lot of bandwith, i had many cds of warez as well as mp3 and vcd and isos burned to cd, that evidence would have done me in in court, so i accepted the plea//....another thing...this is not a wake up call to everyone to be paranoid, if anything it is my opinion that this would end up being a wake-up call to people that "gee, i guess not all that many people are being busted after all" they never asked me to help them bust people, so, make whatever inferences you want from that...personally i believe all software should be free, its inherantly flawed by the way, WE ALL NEED TO HELP SHOOT DOWN THE B-2 LEGISLATION!!! thanks all for this forum, i'll write some more later today
hello folks, my name is jeff levy, i was the one who has now been convicted of the net act, i thought this would be the best website for me to offer up my side of the story to the internet community, so i made myself an account and am gonna post this up, first of all i was NOT running any sort of direct download website, they found a LIST on a website, it had no links, to get something from me you had to know me and have me put my ftp server up, which was small, and not open 24/7 by any means, i was very little time, the fbi was upset at how little a guy i was, they though i was gonna be a kingpin but i ended up being small potatoes.....i accepted the conviction because i didnt think that the whole ordeal is worth the tax dollars and time and effort a public defender would end up having to put into defending me when in the end i could end up worse off after a trial...i am already offered a reasonable plea which i accepted that i personally feel is a symbolic kind of win for the gov because the teeth of it is the felony conviction, while i am not guarateed, i think i will most likely get no restution and a probationary sentance, which will both most likely be recommended, the plea keeps me from any real financial, incarceration danger by letting them brand me a felon...so i will write more if people like, i havent read everything people have said yet but i will, feel free to email me at terrapin@televar.com or you can sometimes find me still on efnet in #uoregon take it easy people! -jeff
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there is a cross section of that tree in the boston museum of science on display, its neat, it shows historical events on the rings of the tree
check it out if you can
yes, i have had several people mention to me to move to linux, i will but it takes some time to learn, when i get the time to figure it out some though i will be using it
ok so it was originally posted anonymously
well, i agree with it, and seeing as it isnt COPYRIGHTED, i will post it here in direct response and not from a coward
The very nature of computers is to make copies, you stupid ***holes! Are we going to have speech licences next? "Sorry you are not allowed to repeat anything that anyone else has said because someone holds the copyright on that thought. Off to the concentration camp with you." That's THIER wet dream isn't it.... Total criminilization for all TODAY! Make all "crimes" a federal offense, punishable by 10 years in prison. Create laws so that everyone no matter how young, old, or lazy can become and endentured servant to the system forever. I don't know what irks me more, the feds and lawmakers for doing what they do OR people on here that disagree with thier actions, yet are willing to give lip services and puss out by saying, "well he was dumb and deserves what he got since he got caught." you people truely have no spine
in retrospect that what i should have been doing, i was getting off on the whole robin hood aspect of warez, and prolly left my site open more often that i should have
i was actually very stealthy compared to others, and also relativly small time, after all i only had a 5 gig drive, how much can u do with that?
the reason i got caught is because my school called the fbi instead of me to resolve this, thuis costing you the taxpayer, more money, i wasnt being stupid, i was being as stealthy as i could for what i knew, using a strange port, not up 24/7 and NOTHING could ever at any point be downloaded from anywhere except a secure non anonymous ftp server, and no the address of it was not on my website, there was nothing on my website, there was an excel list on my shell
o i read some of these more now and want to reply some...if you didnt read my earlier one, i am jeffrey gerard levy, first off...
some people have asked, why him? well first off all i was using ALOT of bandwith on my universities network, sometimes sustaining 500 kbps overnight, sometimes nothing, but i was using a lot and they noticed at the computer center, then they found an excel list of some mp3s and warez that was on my shell but not with no links to it from my webpage, they obliviously were monitoring every file i sent to my shell and when they found that, they overeacted and called the fbi instead of being reasonable and calling me up and telling me to cut it out (which i would have done immediatly and permanently), so instead the U of O has cost the taxpayers of oregon an unecessary costs associated with my legal journey...also, i was NOT selling anything, i was trading and one of the reasons i got caught also is that i was trading vcd's and isos which took up a lot of bandwith, i had many cds of warez as well as mp3 and vcd and isos burned to cd, that evidence would have done me in in court, so i accepted the plea//....another thing...this is not a wake up call to everyone to be paranoid, if anything it is my opinion that this would end up being a wake-up call to people that "gee, i guess not all that many people are being busted after all" they never asked me to help them bust people, so, make whatever inferences you want from that...personally i believe all software should be free, its inherantly flawed
by the way, WE ALL NEED TO HELP SHOOT DOWN THE B-2 LEGISLATION!!!
thanks all for this forum, i'll write some more later today
hello folks, my name is jeff levy, i was the one who has now been convicted of the net act, i thought this would be the best website for me to offer up my side of the story to the internet community, so i made myself an account and am gonna post this up, first of all i was NOT running any sort of direct download website, they found a LIST on a website, it had no links, to get something from me you had to know me and have me put my ftp server up, which was small, and not open 24/7 by any means, i was very little time, the fbi was upset at how little a guy i was, they though i was gonna be a kingpin but i ended up being small potatoes.....i accepted the conviction because i didnt think that the whole ordeal is worth the tax dollars and time and effort a public defender would end up having to put into defending me when in the end i could end up worse off after a trial...i am already offered a reasonable plea which i accepted that i personally feel is a symbolic kind of win for the gov because the teeth of it is the felony conviction, while i am not guarateed, i think i will most likely get no restution and a probationary sentance, which will both most likely be recommended, the plea keeps me from any real financial, incarceration danger by letting them brand me a felon...so i will write more if people like, i havent read everything people have said yet but i will, feel free to email me at terrapin@televar.com or you can sometimes find me still on efnet in #uoregon
take it easy people!
-jeff