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Old 02-27-2004, 01:46 PM   #1
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Man Gets Prison for Misleading Web Names

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...et_trick_names


NEW YORK - A man was sentenced Thursday to 2 1/2 years in prison for registering misleading domain names on the Internet that guided children searching for popular sites like Disneyland to pornography instead.

John Zuccarini, 56, arrested in September in Hollywood, Fla., sobbed and apologized before he was sentenced in federal court.

Zuccarini pleaded guilty Dec. 10, admitting he capitalized on the tendency of youngsters to misspell, fooling them into finding sites that advertise for pornography, among other things.

The misspelled names led Internet surfers to advertising sites that paid Zuccarini for each user who viewed them. The government said he made up to $1 million a year from the scheme.

Prosecutors say the charges and plea were the first brought under a provision of the federal Amber Alert law, which makes it a crime to use a misleading Web address to draw children to pornography.

Last year, Zuccarini was ordered to stop the scheme after the Federal Trade Commission sued him for registering misspelled variations of sites for the Backstreet Boys (news - web sites), Victoria's Secret and The Wall Street Journal.
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Old 02-27-2004, 01:47 PM   #2
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ummmm how many kids have credit cards?
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Old 02-27-2004, 01:48 PM   #3
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2.5 years in prison? Holy shit, thats crazy. For missspelling of victoria secret and wall street journal. Geez, thats rough
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Old 02-27-2004, 01:48 PM   #4
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ummmm how many kids have credit cards?
There's a thing called dialers too...
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Old 02-27-2004, 01:51 PM   #5
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The dialers make the deal I guess?

2.5 years seems a bit hard though.
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Old 02-27-2004, 02:01 PM   #6
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If they're dishing out that much for URLs, just think what pop ups and redirects and bookmarkers will getcha'.

Not to mention rebills.
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Old 02-27-2004, 02:02 PM   #7
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i remember hearing about that when he first was arrested... i thought it was stupid then, and i still think it is now.

I highly doubt he was trying to capitalize on children. Honestly, how many children can afford porn? stupid law...
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Old 02-27-2004, 02:05 PM   #8
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he also owns many non-typo adult names...

some are very nice and are due to expire this year
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Old 02-27-2004, 02:05 PM   #9
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do a search on google, he done this repeatedly, and was sued and hauled into court many times for it but wouldn't stop.

he finally hide out in the Bahamas and in a motel in florida to avoid the cops and the fbi.
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Old 02-27-2004, 02:07 PM   #10
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gosh what a harsh punishment
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Old 02-27-2004, 02:16 PM   #11
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thats fucking stupid.
a little harsh.
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Old 02-27-2004, 02:18 PM   #12
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KRL already posted this.
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KRL already posted this.
My bad, missed it...
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