Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:07:42 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: are we CRIMINALS? Message-ID: <6453DAA1532FE742E7057C08@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCAEFACFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCAEFACFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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--On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 21:57:22 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl >> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:25 AM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: are we CRIMINALS? >> >> >> --On Tuesday, January 22, 2008 13:03:27 +0100 Wojciech Puchar >> <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: >> >> > http://www.spamsuite.com/node/351 >> > >> > jest first step to criminalize unix at all >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> We aren't criminals, but *he* is. >> > > Paul, you do realize that Sierra is a known newsgroup spammer and > that the lawsuit in question was just filed against a spamfighter > by a spammer? > Yes. > Also, that the "judgement" that is in the post is actually > a prepared order, written by Plaintiff's counsel, it wasn't > written by the judge. > Yes. > This case is sitting in the appellate courts somewhere, gathering > dust. Nobody has paid anything to anybody, except to the lawyers. > Sierra makes their money selling to morons what Google gives > out for free. > > Please, unless your willing to do the research, don't waste > time commenting. > He disobeyed a court order. That makes him a criminal. Whether what he was trying to do was "right" or not is irrelevant. Once the court told him to stop, he should have stopped. And yes, I know full well that bad people take advantage of our courts every day. -- Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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