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Re: SWAT team? Try the FBI |
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 ·Armstrong Zoom ..
| Bull: SWAT team? Bull. Here it is a State Police, or local police, delivering a ticket for theft of service. Also, Sheriff is involved to get all the equipment out of the house (modem, etc).
If there is monetary damage, then the company can sue the person after that.
Pound-ass prison, doubtful. Not unless they were using there stolen cable "speed" to download kiddie porn faster. |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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Fort Wayne, IN
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 ·Frontier FiOS
| Well if you are going to link to the start of the legal process, you might as well link to the outcome. From that news article:
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...Runner was one of those charged with uncapping his cable modem, and didn't receive the same early exit from the legal gauntlet many of his fellow uncappers were 'lucky' to receive. Seven of the uncappers were indicted in September of 2002. One case was dismissed. Two offenders struck deals and went through a diversion program (Wirtz being one), and were not prosecuted. Two others were charged with reduced misdemeanor charges and placed on probation, while one other was convicted of a felony and placed on "community control".
The seventh, George Runner, only recently received his day in court. According to a report published yesterday, the case against Runner has been dismissed, because Runner apparently was not properly informed by Buckeye that he could not modify his modem. Wirtz confirmed for us that the company's acceptable use agreement failed to clearly disallow the modification of their modems.
So we have two dismissal, two settlements without prosecutions, two misdemeanor probations, and a "community control" conviction that doesn't exactly sound like pound-ass prison otherwise they would have said jail/prison.
Sensationalize much? |
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