OT: Spam King Arrested!

[Glenn Steen]

Getting wildly OT below. you've been warned.

On 03/06/07, Mogens Melander <mogens at fumlersoft.dk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, June 3, 2007 13:09, Glenn Steen wrote:
> > On 03/06/07, Mogens Melander <mogens at fumlersoft.dk> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, June 2, 2007 14:56, Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
> >> > Scott Silva wrote:
> >> >> One down --- thousands to go!
> >> >>
> >> > I wonder about that. If a change of policy and tolerance in the US
> >> > towards these lowlifes meant that they started to get locked up, if
> >> spam
> >> > was to be treated like DVD piracy and the US Gov sent delegations to
> >> > other countries and demanded action, would the volume drop
> >> > significantly?
> >>
> >> Hmm, what kind of delegation are we talking about? The delegation that
> >> went to Irak is still figthing, and the delegation that went to sweeden
> >> (piratebay) they are still laughing abaout. BTW. i'm from Denmark, the
> >> small dot below sweeden, and just above Germany 8^)
> >
> > Have anything in paticular wrong with your keeboard there, Mogens?
> > Slight problem with <Shift> and <e> it seems.... It's Sweden, as you
> > perfectly well know;-).
>
> Yup, yore right. It was probably caused by my hangovers.

Multiple hangovers?! Must be a b***h:-)

> > Enjoy the game yesterday?:-):-) Don't tell me you were one of the
> > moronic runners.....:-D.
>
> Did i miss something? I'm on 3 week trip to Thailand, hence the
> hangovers ;^)

Only one of the more interesting(:-)= soccer qualifiers I've seen in a
long while... Starting with Sweden taking the lead 3-0 in the first 25
minutes, then Denmark turning the tables and equalizing the score to
3-3 ... So when Poulssen doled out a stomach punch while inside the
penalty area, his subsequent red card and the referee giving Sweden a
penalty kick... tempers got a bit heated... Especially one rather
angry member of the audience, who ran onto the field and attacked the
referee, seemed to be a tad mad ... So (in the 85:th minute, after two
more runners from the audience... Bl**dy morons) the game was declared
forfeit with Sweden as the winner 3-0 ... The home crowd on Parken was
a bit quiet after that.
Depends on whether you enjoy football (and the mostly good natured
derby feel to the event:) if you deem that you've missed something,
basking in the sun, getting hung over (what? one might ask...;-)
etc:-).

> >> In a free world, US Gov. policies have litle impact.
> >
> > Quite true. When they start threatening us, we'll go through the
> > motions though (as with Pirate Bay), no country wants to have trade
> > embargos and whatnot.
>
> Well, the guys in Sweden don't seem to mind, as Piratebay is still up.
>
As being one of the "guys in Sweden", I can tell you that the picture
isn't as clear as that. The ramifications of the raid (where a lot of
innocent bystanders got their servers seized and held for quite some
time) is far from clear... several court actions will stem from that,
and possibly charges will be brought on some of the PB people...
eventually.
So far though... The police has had a bit of trouble actually proving
a fellony at all (mostly "side issues", not the main BT thing)... But
they are still working on it, AFAIK.
What I meant is that the raid did go through, although everyone
involved knew it'd bog down like this (and likely lead nowhere)
because of the  .... threats ... leveled at us.
The fact that the action had no discernible effect on PB operation...
just shows that you cannot "fight" (note: I'm certainly not saying you
even *should*) an international thing like that on a national level is
idiotic at best. I don't think we disagree about that either;-).

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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