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- trujillonorte, on 05/03/2008, -6/+246HOLY *****! I REMEMBER HIM! HIS NAME WAS STRIDER! His famous saying was kill a commie for mommie! I was active in the commodore 64 scene back in the day in the late eighties
- DaDrake, on 05/03/2008, -15/+196Diggers have a real dilemma here. On one side, they want to defend piracy and want to defend this man. On the other side, they want to crucify anything republican.
- synystar, on 05/03/2008, -2/+126"BTW, I also heard a rumor that another fellow committee member (who shall remain unnamed) once made a tape copy of his friend’s favorite vinyl record."
Good point. They sentence an otherwise law-abiding citizen to thirty months in prison for something that nearly everyone has done at some point in their lives and it was something he did when he was much younger. Yes, he was actively cracking copyrighted works, and I know that at some point you must make an example of someone or the law is ineffective. But the punishment seems to be way harsh for the crime in this case. Prison? - SystemError51, on 05/03/2008, -1/+115It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're chairman of the San Diego Republican Party. You have a social security number, pay your taxes. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Strider" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for.
One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -7/+106see? not all warez hakzors are 25-yr-old deadbeats living in their parents' basements...
- mCanada, on 05/03/2008, -1/+79I know the republicans aren't in everyone's good books right now, but putting that aside; the so called "crimes" were committed are identical in fashion to what DVD jon did. He essentially broke copyright. And he's going to jail for that? I'm not going to laugh at him simply because he's a republican, or because he may have different views than me. I totally support him, this is a witch hunt that will deprive his family from their father for 30 months for a ridiculous reason.
- MrPig, on 05/03/2008, -10/+53No, but you are.
- remlap, on 05/03/2008, -0/+41In the former soviet union software was freely distributed, legally.
- dusingaz, on 05/03/2008, -7/+48Warez a great word.
- MurphyMac, on 05/03/2008, -2/+42Obviously there's a huge difference between stealing a song and helping development a *network* for stealing songs and software. Anything more than a month in prison is way harsh. And I agree to an extent, any prison time is pretty harsh.
- mcrules, on 05/03/2008, -10/+48Kind of ironic as wasnt this the same party that introduced the DMCA?
- gullydwarf, on 05/03/2008, -3/+41They're sending a man to 30 months in prison for uploading some software and scripting a site. The RIAA/MPAA have a pretty firm grip on our legal system.
- bratterscain, on 05/03/2008, -0/+33Strider, as listed by the C64 Scene Database: http://noname.c64.org/csdb/scener/?id=974&sort=ach ...
Knowing this, I think I'd be more likely to elect him. What cities actually have what we could probably define as an 'leet' official? - malex, on 05/03/2008, -4/+37Tiebreaker: People who pluralize words with a "z" should be tied in a sack and beaten.
- mattes5, on 05/03/2008, -10/+42how is that ironic?
- superkendall, on 05/03/2008, -0/+32Matrix ref. You can get off the horse now.
- elipabst, on 05/03/2008, -7/+37The guy is a Republican leader who talks about killing commies online, but at the same time is the head of a group that facilitates the distribution of copyrighted material for free to the masses.
/Plus he has flies in his Chardonnay or something.... - justz00t, on 05/03/2008, -3/+32Hey was it not Bill Clinton that signed it into freaking law?!!?
Both party's suck for letting this one pass. - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -4/+32Where is the Exploding Yellow Van?
- synystar, on 05/03/2008, -4/+31Even a month in prison is harsh for the crime. He was a kid having fun. He helped people steal other peoples work. But you have to wonder how much damage was done. Were his "victims" really harmed? Did they really lose money? How many people who downloaded his "warez" would have purchased the product if it wasn't so easy to steal? Did he profit? The punishment does not fit the crime.
- lateralus, on 05/03/2008, -0/+26You can't see it in the cropped photo, but he does have an American flag pin on his right side. In case you were wondering if he really is patriotic or not.
- goldenratiophi, on 05/03/2008, -0/+24*whoosh*
- remlap, on 05/03/2008, -2/+25You read to far into it matey.
- h3llscaper, on 05/03/2008, -7/+29I would vote for him for anything after knowing this.
- elipabst, on 05/03/2008, -23/+45"His famous saying was kill a commie for mommie!"
Wow, that's ironic. - cheese06, on 05/03/2008, -7/+28my respect for the Republican party has gone up a notch
- CatsAreGods, on 05/03/2008, -1/+21So he was, what, 10 years old at the time?
- Anteros, on 05/03/2008, -0/+17Aside from the warez they released some great legal demo productions over the years, just found a many of them on youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L40Iy8QbIY - inactive, on 05/03/2008, -0/+17***** you I want my phone call!
- arjie, on 05/03/2008, -0/+15That's Alanis Morissette, non?
- jonpotz, on 05/03/2008, -2/+17FLT has my vote.
- Louis11, on 05/03/2008, -0/+15What good is a phone call . . . if you are, unable to speak?
*Silly putties Strider's mouth" - DisposableRob, on 05/03/2008, -1/+15I read it that way first, but the "30-year-old pirate" and San Diego RP chairman are two different people. Tony Krvaric is about 36-37.
- malex, on 05/03/2008, -0/+13Are you even paying attention to yourself?
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -13/+26And I thought they only stole elections...
- CaptainJapan, on 05/03/2008, -2/+14He steals and then he sues himself, win win.
- inactive, on 05/03/2008, -3/+15The republicans are the closest thing to a Libertarian party? What about... the Libertarian party?
- Jeffler, on 05/03/2008, -10/+22You see, its like ray-ee-ayynn....
- Suricou, on 05/03/2008, -0/+11It's lottery enforcement. Giving every violator an appropriate length sentence would be impractical - just imagine the logistics of jailing somewhere around half the population of the US for even a week, not to mention the political consequences. So instead, just give a ridiculously over-the-top punishment to a very few violators, and hope to scare all the others away.
- Rodalli, on 05/03/2008, -4/+15That's what I like to hear. People need to realize that 99% of the people that call themselves "conservatives" today are not. They're corporatists and thieves. A true conservative would be fiscally responsible (you know, conserving money?) and as we've all seen the GOP hasn't been fiscally responsible since my dad was in grade school.
- nouse66, on 05/03/2008, -9/+19so conservatives aren't all law abiding citizens? i so confused! who's gonna spoon feed me morals now???
- RedHerringHack, on 05/03/2008, -2/+12Face it, if the authorities knew everything we have done our entire life, we would all be in jail for the rest of it. I don't care who you are, or how lilly white you think you are, you have committed felonies. You just haven't been caught. Think about it.
- actorboy, on 05/03/2008, -2/+12No, I think they have other reasons to laugh at us that pretty much trump this.
- iamorlando, on 05/03/2008, -3/+13a real life Emperor Palpatine?
- blagoaw, on 05/03/2008, -3/+13I'd argue that his issue with communism may be that the government determines distribution of limited resources that he may believe that individuals have more of a right to determine. His cracking and distribution of software in violation of copyright freely distributed an unlimited resource and was done without any government involvement. He could possibly be a freedom-focused capitalist in some way, who might not agree with the court's protection of copyright. (reposted because elipabst posted twice :))
- arjie, on 05/03/2008, -0/+10mattes5: Tomorrow, if you do stuff like this in real life too, you must often wake up with a hangover, embarrassed at what happened the previous night. Relax. Sometimes things are just funny, not a conspiracy to persecute your pet ideology.
- YamiJim, on 05/03/2008, -13/+22this kind of legal ***** is exactly why other countries laugh at us.
- UnlikelyHero, on 05/03/2008, -0/+9When it's impossible to live your life without being a felon then perhaps its time to get rid of most of the laws.
- shark72, on 05/03/2008, -2/+11Remember, this all happened 15 years ago, when he was in high school.
I know that many high school and college age people reading this have the "piracy forever!!!!111!!cos(0)!" mindset. If you make this your lifelong creed, then God bless you. But for many people, it's not the case. They grow up, they learn a little more about how the world works, and they change their values.
I pirated my share of Apple // software back in the day. I was also big in the hacking scene and wrote for Phrack (ask your parents). But today, I would not do that. Time changes some people.
That being said, the guy's still a tool. This has nothing to do with the fact that he was once a warez kiddy. - superkendall, on 05/03/2008, -11/+19Don't you get it? Democrats ARE the music/movie industry. He was for individual freedom and the Republicans are the closest thing there is to a libertarian party. He did pick a side, and he stuck with it.
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