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cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/323269

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Regular people get more time for cannabis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

That’s great and all, but if ARIN really wants to prolong IPv4 exhaustion perhaps they should ask for some of those /8s back.. just saying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Now that's interesting.

It seems weird that he only got 5 years. Maybe there was a fine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The U.S Department of Justice says Golestan will serve 60 months in prison, followed by a 2-year term of court-ordered supervision. The Micfo CEO also was ordered to pay nearly $77,000 in restitution to ARIN for its work in assisting federal prosecutors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That is actually pretty reasonable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

creation of the phony companies was necessary to prevent entities like Spamhaus from interfering with his business going forward

So his business is spam, then.

The act of consciously and deliberately contributing to the proliferation of spam is anti-human behaviour. The fraud penalties are a mere pittance compared to what this sociopath deserves.