Crazy On Tap - I am at a complete loss to understand

I am at a complete loss to understand

How a 27 yr. old man can sell 20 million dollars worth of software, let alone before getting caught.

http://news.com.com/Man+gets+7+years+for+software+piracy/2100-1014_3-6114012.html?tag=nefd.top

What kind of hot domain name name do you need to pull off that kind of magic? Wow, I had no idea.

LinuxOrBust
September 11th, 2006 4:37am

iBackups.net

wheeeeeee ~~~~~~~~~~x
September 11th, 2006 4:43am

Your right, there is an FBI warning defacing their site, and says it was shut down. I didn't notice the URL in the article. Did you google or had you heard of it. What a strange URL name.

LinuxOrBust
September 11th, 2006 5:55am

"Software piracy resulted in a loss of $34 billion worldwide in 2005, a $1.6 billion increase over 2004, according to a study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance. "

Bollocks

Tapiwa
September 11th, 2006 8:26am

and which idiots were buying the software.

I mean, if you are going to pirate, do it properly.

Warez on newgroups and bit torrent anyone??

Tapiwa
September 11th, 2006 8:27am

Oh yeah ... we love the WayBackWhen machine

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ibackups.net

Tapiwa
September 11th, 2006 8:29am

"commissioned by the Business Software Alliance. "

Bollocks"

...bit redundant, don't you think?

Steel McLargeHuge
September 11th, 2006 9:54am

Bah... to lost revenues from something where reproduction costs are almost nil and nothing tangible is being stolen.

JoC
September 11th, 2006 10:00am

rather than sending the guy to jail, the "victims" of the suit should be hiring the guy for sales...

Kenny
September 11th, 2006 12:07pm

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