Re: Amir Golestan sentenced to 5 years in prison for IP theft scheme

2023-10-18 Thread Mel Beckman via NANOG
It _is_ interesting that this was an IPv4 black market crime. Think of all the smaller black marketeers dealing in IPv4 trafficking. -mel via cell > On Oct 17, 2023, at 10:09 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > Sadly, probably not. AUP violations are a civil, not a criminal matter. > Fraud, OTOH, i

Re: Amir Golestan sentenced to 5 years in prison for IP theft scheme

2023-10-17 Thread Owen DeLong via NANOG
Sadly, probably not. AUP violations are a civil, not a criminal matter. Fraud, OTOH, is a criminal matter. In the US, at least, people don’t go to prison for civil matters. Owen > On Oct 17, 2023, at 19:19, Mel Beckman wrote: > > So ARIN DB spammers should get at least a year or two, right?

Re: Amir Golestan sentenced to 5 years in prison for IP theft scheme

2023-10-17 Thread Mel Beckman
So ARIN DB spammers should get at least a year or two, right? :-) -mel via cell > On Oct 17, 2023, at 7:05 PM, goemon--- via NANOG wrote: > > https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/tech-ceo-sentenced-to-5-years-in-ip-address-scheme/ > > And a statement from ARIN: > https://www.arin.net/blog/202