Alliedassault - View Single Post - PIRATE GETS 180 MILLION RESTITUTION VERDICT

pest · 07-01-2003, 06:32 AM

[quote="Simo Häyhä":5beb1]his life looks like its ruined...if i were him i would go up to the prosecution with a .357[/quote:5beb1]

Why? $500 a month. If the guy lived to be 90, its still less than half a million. Thats just a car payment for live. And $500 will be peanuts in 10 years.

What I want to know is how the cops came up with their estimate of $180 million. Lets assume the cards will work for 2 years (and anyone that has ever been involved in satelite hacks know this is a VERY generous overestimate). And the guy had 5000 customers. Thats $3000 a month per customer. No one can watch that much satelite, even if they wanted to. They used the highest shock value number they could and I bet they could only thinly justify the number. Kind of like when they make a big drug bust and value small plants of brown dirtweed a $1000 a tree. No street credibility.

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pest is Offline Senior Member Posts: 2,828 Join Date: May 2002 Location: Buzzin around the dung pile...	07-01-2003, 06:32 AM [quote="Simo Häyhä":5beb1]his life looks like its ruined...if i were him i would go up to the prosecution with a .357[/quote:5beb1] Why? $500 a month. If the guy lived to be 90, its still less than half a million. Thats just a car payment for live. And $500 will be peanuts in 10 years. What I want to know is how the cops came up with their estimate of $180 million. Lets assume the cards will work for 2 years (and anyone that has ever been involved in satelite hacks know this is a VERY generous overestimate). And the guy had 5000 customers. Thats $3000 a month per customer. No one can watch that much satelite, even if they wanted to. They used the highest shock value number they could and I bet they could only thinly justify the number. Kind of like when they make a big drug bust and value small plants of brown dirtweed a $1000 a tree. No street credibility.