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[skarthebloodchild]

it's awful to hear it.
i hope you calm down from the raid and enjoy xmas as much as you can!

 

[MaHe]

Things like these make me glad I live where I do.

 

[Foie]

it's awful to hear it.
i hope you calm down from the raid and enjoy xmas Christmas as much as you can!

Fixed.

It just bugs me when people call it that.

 

[Mewgia]

Well XxX looks pretty gangster in the pics he posted, maybe he is a crime lord in hiding! O:

 

[FAST6191]

I do not really know what to say to all this other than good to have you back Mr. XXX.

I have had my troubles with overbearing police (countless different incidents but transport police are my favourite here) but that one ups* anything that I have had thrown my way.

As I understand it you work for yourself/with your friends but I hope the fact this happened does not come back to haunt you (for anyone wondering a fed level arrest (even without charge) does not do wonders for idiots conducting a cursory background check, not related specifically but gives you an idea: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/27/background_check/ )

I know I would be gutted if I lost my DVD collection and it would not even be that hard for me to replace it. (on a sidenote I wonder how iron clad a defence would be on p2p/copyright charges if I slammed a inventory list from the feds down).

*actually it about 600 ups it but who is counting.

 

[Verocity]

Sorry to hear that X, I'm glad your back man, I wondered where you had been.

They'll get theres in the end.

"The universe tends to unfold as it should." -Quote from Harold and Kumar Goes to White Castle

 

[HazeyTheLazy]

SO BASICALLY YOU ARE PART OF A "CONSPIRECY THEORY" Of pirating and you took all the money that was hidden away and paid LOTS of money to your lawyers who then got you off!

-Just to be honest, WTF are you doing with a 400 dvd recorder that prints labels on the top???(You a pirate, but thats cool)

-I know a video pirater in Clearwater, Florida and he got NO CHARGES b/ he payed a little past the hundred thousands to get off & he had OVER 3,000 DVD's and OVER 1,000 Xbox and PS2 games! over 5,000 CD's! Not to mention equpiment for factory DVD and CD recording! So I can see you getting off with a little spare cash...

 

[WeaponXxX]

WTF are you taking about Hazey? I have 2 400 disc DVD PLAYERS...not recorders....PLAYERS...and no duplicate movies...single copies. And only one burner in each rig.

And @Fast....yes this is long from over... I plan to move asap....mainly because my lawyer pointed it out communities do not like my "type" and now I feel I have just become a flagged man. Prior involvements with the law I had layers of security however my right hand man has basically fucked me over.... ironically I still wonder how much the feds know about me as they never pulled my ID nor was I arrested.... just a warrant issued to raid my house... and I am a man with many aliases. Regardless the feds and local police know where I live and who I am and there is no way I am gonna hang out in this town when I know they don't want me to. As innocent as I am these days...being tried repeatedly of a crimes can still be costly.

All in all It is day two of having my rigs back...I should be working but I have been spending most the time looking into better ways of backing up my data in the event future repeats itself.

@Mewgia Those days of illegal crime are long behind me....it took me a while to realize but why run illegal operations in america when you can get rich off selling smokes, booze, and sex which are all perfectly legal and in high demand

 

[zeppo]

What the hell did you do in the first place?! It just makes me wonder more now that you've said stuff like "I have many aliases"...

 

[Mangofett]

What the hell did you do in the first place?! It just makes me wonder more now that you've said stuff like "I have many aliases"...

QUOTEanyway I am not gonna talk about why the feds raided me

 

[AMPonzi]

That's a scary thought though that someone can basically rat you out to the feds for something you didn't do and they can just come by and take all your stuff even if it isn't pertinent to the accusation. But then again, if they'll award $222,000 to the RIAA for 24 pirated songs, nothing surprises me anymore. Canada's looking more and more possible even though it's an iceburg, but at least they treat residents like people and not ownership. I mean, do you realize how much is tied to your social security number? It's incredible! And with this new RFID project, it's very possible that tracking is coming next. I don't know, I don't like where this is going at all... I certainly don't feel security in my homeland...

 

[cory1492]

All in all this just ended up being a very valuable life experience...trust nobodyÂ

Too bad it cost you that much to figure that one out. Being slightly paranoid isn't freakish these days, it means survival (in places other than where they put mass murders, rapists and the like.)

Brings back a line a local cop in a small town near me tried to pull on me a while back while threatening to strip search me outside a bar on a -30C night (add on 45k/h winds to get the -40C windchill temp)...
small town copRights? You don't have any rights.

Indeed, they don't give a shit what kind of havok their bullheadedness brings into your life, mainly because everyone looks guilty to them (that's what you get from spending too much time looking into guilty peoples lives, I guess).

On a side note, good to hear you aren't taking it the worst way it could be taken and have bounced back. Hope your Christmas isn't destroyed.

 

[VmprHntrD]

Being nice about it you are. I wouldn't care if the former friend was poor, as I'm vindictive and would gladly at a cost on principle take them from poor to homeless out of sheer spite. I'd also pursue action against the fed for going in with no hard evidence or investigation of the false charges and for keeping some of your stuff (legal movies) that had to have cost quite a bit considering the total of them.

Do agree though, they're all shits...I'd move too as they'd keep tabs on you just for the hell of it. You'd be like the 'OJ' of town, except you're innocent...everyone watching and waiting to take another shot.

 

[Szyslak]

I'd also pursue action against the fed for going in with no hard evidence...

Good luck with that, and welcome to America under the current administration, where the only thing dissolving faster than your "rights" is the dollar.

 

[amptor]

not to be mean, but last I heard was that weaponx is not a us citizen and I'm not sure that all constitutional rights cover illegal aliens..also child porn, possibly but doubtful... haven't seen him with any that look under 18. sad thing about american women is, getting busted by the fbi will get him more pussy.

btw you have to have permission if you want to sue the government... i wouldn't bother with that shit, total waste of time and not even worth talking about.

 

[Mewgia]

@Mewgia Those days of illegal crime are long behind me....it took me a while to realize but why run illegal operations in america when you can get rich off selling smokes, booze, and sex which are all perfectly legal and in high demand

haha oh man so you actually used to do that stuff? I was joking XD

 

[[M]artin]

Good to hear you're back and in one piece, X.

and Happy Holidays!

 

[PikaPika]

BTW, wanna tell the story? Was it like 2 men in black suits just showing up to your door one day?Â

If you don't want to, that's completely fine.


I don't know. Whenever I hear feds raiding a house. I always imagine like, a swat team busting out the windows and throwing in smoke grenades and then blowing off my roof and and then coming in from a helicopter above coming down on ropes.

Same here lol. Anytime I hear a helicopter nearby, I get paranoid

 

[Mangofett]

FBI people wear blue jackets with FBI in yellow letters

 

[BoneMonkey]

not mulder and scully