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Re: This is a stupid waste of taxpayer money. Jester has a point although he seemed to have a little to much of an outburst. The law is the law reguardless and that doesn't make the police officers bad or wrong to carry it out. They don't make the law. Criminals make the law (hehe or so it seems sometimes). There is a big difference between owning slaves and stealing the bandwidth of everyone around you and breaking the law. Also I didn't seem to recall the article saying anything about these guys altering their own computers. It said they were uncapping; which, for those of you who don't really know what they are talking about when you post here, means (in short)that they had to get in and modify their cable modem! They had to alter the actual properties of the modem not their computer! Now the real question that everyone should be asking is this: Did they buy their own cable modem or were they just leasing one from their cable provider? One way they would be uncapping, stealing, and altering equipment that doesn't belong to them. The other way they would only be uncapping and stealing. Either way they should be severely punished for it because I know if they don't more and more people will do it and our cable will slow down so bad that dial-up will be a wave of the future. I know that if someone in my area did that I and nothing severe was done about it I might have to break the law and do some cyber crime to their computer to make sure they never get on again. |
