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At some point it involved violence. It's one of those things where he provided a service that did not follow the regulations that were in part placed there to p

At some point it involved violence. It's one of those things where he provided a service that did not follow the regulations that were in part placed there to prevent crime. His violations of these regulations allow other criminals to piggyback off of him by using his services. Spammers, VPNs, and other services which criminals can use - especially with forged IP address ranges - to commit crimes. He is a middle man, and by not following regulations, he assisted all of those crimes. Consider craigslist, they are protected by safe harbor laws because they comply with regulations and laws, even though criminal activity passes over their servers, it's a level that is deemed acceptable by society for the service they provide (given they are well regulated). When laws like FOSTA/SESTA get passed and change those regulations, some services will shut down (because they are no longer complying). Which is why he probably deserves a larger sentence (though others have pointed out the ridiculousness of the US sentencing system and I don't disagree).

meowface 7y ago
>At some point it involved violence. >Spammers, VPNs, and other services which criminals can use - especially with forged IP address ranges - to commit crimes. How are these violence?
- SolarNet 7y ago
  > VPNs and other services. Drug cartels, pedophile rings, etc.
  - codedokode 7y ago
    But you have to prove that those IP addresses were used for crime. Maybe the purpose was only to earn money from reselling them.
    - SolarNet 7y ago
      And we can't. Because this person failed to follow the regulations that allow for that to be proven. It's like if I ran a car rental business, and I stole license plate numbers from random cars or made them up, and then kept no records. And then when convicted and charged you were like "but you have to prove that those license plates were used for crime". How? The whole point of the crime was to obfuscate and prevent that very action of tracking the license plates. Which is why he isn't going to jail for any additional criminal acts. But he is getting a very long sentence for the crime he committed because his crime was particularly egregious in enabling other crimes and preventing them from being discovered or tracked.

meowface 7y ago

>At some point it involved violence. >Spammers, VPNs, and other services which criminals can use - especially with forged IP address ranges - to commit crimes. How are these violence?

SolarNet 7y ago
> VPNs and other services. Drug cartels, pedophile rings, etc.
- codedokode 7y ago
  But you have to prove that those IP addresses were used for crime. Maybe the purpose was only to earn money from reselling them.
  - SolarNet 7y ago
    And we can't. Because this person failed to follow the regulations that allow for that to be proven. It's like if I ran a car rental business, and I stole license plate numbers from random cars or made them up, and then kept no records. And then when convicted and charged you were like "but you have to prove that those license plates were used for crime". How? The whole point of the crime was to obfuscate and prevent that very action of tracking the license plates. Which is why he isn't going to jail for any additional criminal acts. But he is getting a very long sentence for the crime he committed because his crime was particularly egregious in enabling other crimes and preventing them from being discovered or tracked.