Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy

Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy 1404

Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:00PM from the don't-do-the-crime-if-you-can't-do-the-time dept.

Chris Tresco is one of those evil "software pirates" cybermoms warn you about. He was a sysadmin at MIT, and also a member of "the secretive Internet software trading ring known as 'DrinkOrDie'" who got caught by the DoJ's Operation Buccaneer, got convicted, and was sentenced to 33 months in prison on August 16. Chris has a little time left on the outside before he goes away and has agreed to spend some of it answering your questions, so ask away. (Usual Slashdot interview rules.)

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Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)

by DrNibbler ( 547534 ) writes: <sean@@@seanreiser...com> on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:04PM (#4273272) Homepage Journal

Does he have a copy of Visual Studio.Net?

Quick request (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:04PM (#4273282)

Can you get me a free copy of Office XP before you go?

Would you like to (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:05PM (#4273291)

Buy some Steel Underwears for the next 33 months ?

Question: (Score:3, Funny)

by Amtiskaw ( 591171 ) writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:08PM (#4273329)

Would you have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for those pesky feds?

mv /bin/laden /dev/null? (Score:2, Funny)

by cculianu ( 183926 ) writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:11PM (#4273369) Homepage

That command, if you are root, will clobber /dev/null. You may want to try rm -f /bin/laden instead.

The most important question... (Score:1, Funny)

by unicron ( 20286 ) writes: <unicron AT thcnet DOT net> on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:14PM (#4273412) Homepage

Bitch or Butch?

Re:What was your mistake/how did you get caught? (Score:5, Funny)

by WEFUNK ( 471506 ) writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:18PM (#4273483) Homepage

by cculianu on Tue Sep 17, '02 12:07 PM (#4273318)
(User #183926 Info | http://www.ajvar.org/~calin)

How did you get caught? I pirate warez all the time off UseNet and never managed to get caught. I even had a ratio ftp site running for a while.

Maybe the authorities found his confession on Slashdot along with a link to his actual homepage with all sorts of vital statistics and contact info. D'oh.

Re:"The Bust", WarGames or Matrix? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:25PM (#4273571)

It was more like "Hackers", when his mom started kicking his ass and he was begging the cops to take him away.

"Con Air" documents his prison days, looks great in a dress too.

Did you laugh at Office Space? (Score:5, Funny)

by glrotate ( 300695 ) writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @12:54PM (#4273890) Homepage

That part about not being ready for federal pound me in the ass prision?

Do you still think its funny?

Swapping things with your inmates (Score:5, Funny)

by Subcarrier ( 262294 ) writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @01:00PM (#4273971)

In prison you will have to barter for every little luxury. Having something of value to trade can be a matter of life and death.

Do you think your experience with swapping things will help you fit in?

What are your strongest assets on the prison market place?

Re:mv /bin/laden /dev/null? (Score:3, Funny)

by Ioldanach ( 88584 ) writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @01:18PM (#4274206)

You may want to try rm -f /bin/laden instead.

Actually, I'd suggest
rm -f /bin/.laden
He's hidden right now, after all.

Re:Did you laugh at Office Space? (Score:3, Funny)

by Afrosheen ( 42464 ) writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @01:33PM (#4274341)

If it's Federal prison, chances are he'll be in the cushy bunks with bankers, CEO's and other upper crust fools who got caught. They do 'soft time' with a few acres of well manicured golf lawn between them and the rest of the world.

He'll only have a problem with dropping the soap if Richard Simmons is suddenly convicted of being a flaming homo by the Feds.

Re:Do you wish you'd raped someone instead (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @01:38PM (#4274383)

Depends on your sorting algorithm.

Re:What was your mistake/how did you get caught? (Score:3, Funny)

by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @01:47PM (#4274473) Journal

Maybe the authorities found his confession on Slashdot along with a link to his actual homepage with all sorts of vital statistics and contact info.

That would lead to the next logical question: "Was it worth the Karma?"

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @02:58PM (#4275236)

What do you think of this random string of characters?

Re:Couple questions (Score:2, Funny)

by MaceSoul ( 542275 ) writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @03:00PM (#4275260)

So paying $50 for a copy of Battlefield 1942 only to find out it on work on ANY of my 5 PC's and they won't let me return it because I opened it IS RIGHT?!?!?!? What's morally correct about releasing a patch for the game before the game itself knowing full well half the people that buy the game have no chance whatsoever of getting it to work? I'm crying rivers here, by the way, you want to buy a barely used copy of Buttfuck 1942?

Re:Did you laugh at Office Space? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @04:42PM (#4276239)

What... about Richard Simmons, or about the cushy prisons?

Re:Couple questions (Score:2, Funny)

by Fred Ferrigno ( 122319 ) writes: on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @06:21PM (#4277107)

I have never sucked a cock, although as a teenager I probably tried to reach my own.

"Probably"? Wouldn't you know better than anyone?

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Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)

Quick request (Score:3, Funny)

Would you like to (Score:0, Funny)

Question: (Score:3, Funny)

mv /bin/laden /dev/null? (Score:2, Funny)

The most important question... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What was your mistake/how did you get caught? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:"The Bust", WarGames or Matrix? (Score:1, Funny)

Did you laugh at Office Space? (Score:5, Funny)

Swapping things with your inmates (Score:5, Funny)

Re:mv /bin/laden /dev/null? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Did you laugh at Office Space? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Do you wish you'd raped someone instead (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What was your mistake/how did you get caught? (Score:3, Funny)

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Couple questions (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Did you laugh at Office Space? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Couple questions (Score:2, Funny)

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