ID bandit gets four years
Take him down, whoever he is
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 07:31
A BLOKE who used file sharing software to nick IDs has been sent down for four years. Gregory Kopiloff, from Seattle, admitted charges of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and accessing a protected computer without authorisation.
The Justice Department claims it is the first time that it has managed to get a conviction against someone who used filesharing programs to commit ID theft.
Kopiloff, 35 used the P2P software to snuffle around PCs to look for personal documents. Many of the victims did not know they had installed P2P software, which has been downloaded by their pesky pirating kids.
Kopiloff told the court that he regretted his actions and had turned to ID theft to support his drug and gambling addictions. µ
L'Inq
AP
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The cops in the US cannot use hacking powers to break into computers suspected of any criminal activity without a warrant....

however, and this is the one thing I detest most about America(ns).
under the Bush's DMCA,
them ****ards in RIAA, MPAA can hack into anyones computer running any P2P software, scan their drives, then waltz into court saying, "judge subpoena this evil terrorist 8 year old boy, for he did take without asking" 
...the DMCA was "signed into law by President Clinton on October 28, 1998":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

So it's not Bush's anything...