Luke Barton • User • The Register Forums

419ers take Canadian for $150,000

Thursday 15th January 2009 15:54 GMT Luke Barton

Sad..

That people believe that someone tracked them down to pay them a large sum of money, to their email address, rather than postal address or telephone.

I mean, seriously. I don't understand where people get the money to pay these things either. $6k CAS is 2 months wages for me.. This guy was splashing it out on flights so people could buy 'fluid' to 'clean' dirty money.

Pro scammers, you can tell because they use so many scams, mixed into the bigger picture. E.g. some scammers sell 'dirty' notes and 'cleaning fluid' without the whole inheritence, fee-up-front, bit.

I wonder if they offered him some quality speakers out the back of a van too.

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UK cops arrest six alleged BitTorrent music uploaders

Monday 2nd June 2008 16:29 GMT Luke Barton

Re:> "force suspects to disclose encryption keys."

If they can prove they had an account but refuse to cough up the password, yes.

If it is unclear whether you had an account, then I think you're fine.

I wouldn't cough it up. I would just cite my right not to incriminate myself. I'd leave it up to them to prove that I owned and used the account to break the law - then leave it up to court to decide whether their logs of internet traffic actually tell them who was sat in front of the computer at the time.

I honestly do not know a single person that would BUY music because it is illegal to download it. People BUY music because they want to pay money for it or have the original cd / box. Saying that, I buy music from iTunes because it is CONVENIENT. I think the recording industry should follow that business model up. The internet has taken the impetus away from the corporations and put it into the hands of majority public - which is where it should be. The public is basically telling the record company what their music is worth and they don't like it.

If cars ran on water, you wouldn't take it to the garage and pay £1.35 a litre, you'd fill it up from your sink, illegal or not.

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