First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft 294
Domain Name News writes "Until recently, there hasn't been a case of a domain theft where the thief was caught and arrested. However, on July 30th, Daniel Goncalves was arrested at his home in Union, New Jersey and charged in a landmark case, the first criminal arrest for domain name theft in the United States. 'Cases of domain name theft have not typically involved a criminal prosecution because of the complexities, financial restraints and sheer time and energy involved. If a domain name is stolen, the victim of the crime in most cases would need experience with the technical and legal intricacies associated with the domain name system. To move the case forward, they would also need a law enforcement professional who understands the case or is willing to take the time to learn. For example, the Angels told us that in their case they called their local law enforcement in Florida who sent a uniformed officer in a squad car to their home. The first thing you can imagine the officer asked was, "What's a domain?"'"
Come on... (Score:5, Insightful)
I get it! Cops are all dumb, lazy, and technically illiterate!
Seriously, everyone. I know we all resent cops, but to imply that a whole department can't find a single officer who knows what a domain is is ridiculous and insulting. Let's try to keep our government/authority-hate at least sort of grounded in reality.
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:1, Insightful)
I don't think it was intended to be calling police officers dumb. Rather, I think the whole idea is that of law enforcement having to deal with obscure technical things that are totally outside of their expertise. Which is why this story is so interesting. The line is starting to blur between cyberspace and meatspace.
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:3, Insightful)
If (haha) homosexuality was illegal and the duty of police was to arrest and imprison those 'mos, would they still just be doing their job? Or would they be signing up to do something wrong?
If I get paid to spam people, am I just doing my job when I spam your email? What if I get paid to write anti-Semitic propaganda? Would you say a certain type of person takes those jobs?
There is a moral imperative not to accept a job the duties of which are corrupt. That's pretty easy to understand.
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:3, Insightful)
Now the next time you see a police officer, whether it is because you got pulled over for speeding or just that they happen to be in a store at the same time you are, tell them THANK YOU for doing the job they do.
Should I thank the homophobe pig for busting queers in the park while letting the straight people go (because straight people having sex in the park is romantic)?
Should I thank him for arresting people that buy too much cold medicine because we make the assumption that they'll make meth with it?
Should I thank him for arresting people and impounding their car over a joint in the ashtray?
And of course, the idea that a taser is only lethal to someone "hopped up on drugs" is absurd, and the evidence doesn't support it.
National Association for the Ascendancy of Crappy People, New Black Panthers
I think we all see you're agenda here. Quite a departure from your usual "kill all niggers" post, eh?
No, cops are NOT good people. Cops are immoral scumbags, and they shouldn't be thanked.
Re:A slightly different way to resolve this (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:3, Insightful)
As perplexing as it is for me to disagree with someone who links to Jeff Cooper, even if it is Wikipedia, the idea that cops need to be better armed for safety reasons is far overblown.
In the US being a cop is safer than being a fisherman. And the relatively few cops who are hurt or killed on the job get it from traffic accidents, not suspects shooting them or beating them or the like. So if you really want to help keep cops safe you should argue to abolish high speed chases. But since traffic accidents don't play well on TV but 2 guys robbing a bank in body armor does, the change cops get is an AR they'll never used in the trunk of their cruiser while they choke slam the guy who on the verge of a diabetic coma because they haven't been trained well enough to recognize he isn't drunk.
They'll shoot that AR once a year, when they qual, and that is it.
I'm usually someone's guest at the SHOT show. In the five years I've been going the cop supply people have slowly merged to become indistinguishable from the military supply people, pitching SWAT level gear as indispensible for every beat cop out there. This is almost all pointless chest thumping. Most of that gear will never be used.
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:What is the ethnic background of Daniel Goncalv (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Why we need to break the govt's monopoly (Score:2, Insightful)
And what do you think the RIAA would do at the first whiff of this being legal again?
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:4, Insightful)
Basically I think we should pay our police better and demand they follow the letter of the law they are hired to enforce. But arguing that their job is hard so we should let them act illegally just unacceptable.
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:2, Insightful)
The problem ends up in extreme cases, like the one in BC, Canada with the Polish guy that couldn't speak English. He was tazed *8 times* until he has a seizure and died.
There are a lot of cops that are using things like tazers at times when they wouldn't use a gun. Got a perp that is cooperating, but yelling at you? I've got the solution! Threaten to taze him if he doesn't shut up! Can you tell me that at anytime in history a cop would have pulled a gun on someone that was yelling and arguing with them, but *NOT* being threatening towards the cop in a physical sense? Is that what used to happen before the Black Panthers 'defanged' the police department?
The problem is that the police have no respect to tazers that they do for guns. They will not hesitate to use a tazer in a situation where they would hesitate to use a gun. This might be fine if the tazer had no risks associated with it, but it does. And police departments and corporations selling the devices want to play down the risks... this only encourages police officers that there is no risk in using a tazer on someone just because they are being loud and won't shut up when asked. Give me a break!
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:1, Insightful)
Nicely written ... by a WASP who has never been "questioned" (i.e. harassed) by the police simply for being brown/black/wrong-place-at-wrong-time/etc.
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:3, Insightful)
If someone is breaking into my home at 2am, they better hope they can run faster than buckshot. The call is for the cops or coroner to come clean up the mess.
And then the cop will arrest you for manslaughter. You do realize that self defense requires the application of only that amount of force necessary?
Re:How is this "theft?" (Score:3, Insightful)
According to Slashdot in every piracy article, this is actually "theft", because you are taking away something from its rightful owner, who will not be able to make use of it any more. Thanks for playing.
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:squatter!? (Score:2, Insightful)
Yes, you should. So when this happens to you, we'll apply the same logic... "you're a nobody. why should we care?"
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:3, Insightful)
Most criminals are scared of being shot so they will move on to something else or attempt the break in when you are not home.
About the only way they will shoot you first knowing you have a gun is if you are specifically targeted before hand. In that case, I'm not sure how many people will be in a different situation with or without a gun.
Seriously, think about it. How many cops who wear their guns on their side in plain view are mugged each year? It isn't the hat the protects them more then anyone else. The badge doesn't do much either because the same rules for killing them can apply there too.
Re:What is the ethnic background of Daniel Goncalv (Score:3, Insightful)
+5 Insightful? What the hell?
Raising questions of ethnicity that would be irrelevant to anything but a racist sentiment is, in fact, racist. Take your rules-lawyer morality and shove it up your ass.
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:4, Insightful)
Actually, no. They know to try next door where there's a chance that the owner is not armed.
To test, put this sign on your lawn: "No guns in the house" Get back to us.
Re:Oh, Those Dumb Police Officers! (Score:3, Insightful)
If the criminal knows, or suspects that you're armed they know they'd be better off going after a different target.
Re:What is the ethnic background of Daniel Goncalv (Score:3, Insightful)