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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / does Sembler.com violates federal law
« on: April 15, 2013, 01:40:42 AM »
It appears that Mel Sembler of Straight Inc fame may have been party to a federal crime with in the last year, and i want to get the word out.

To explain, I need to give you all a bit of background. You may or may not have heard of Aaron Schwartz, and the precedent that his arrest set. The short version is that, under the CFA laws, in certain cases accessing a computer system in a way that violates the terms of service, is a felony. Especially if it interferes with the day to day operation of that system.

SOMEONE from the Sembler.com domain has done exactly that. They deleted large amounts of content from the wikipedia article on Mel Sembler. Wikipedia TOS call that vandalism. This was done multiple times from IP addresses from within the sembler.com domain, and as recently as Feb 3, 2012.

If Arron Schwartz was arrested for downloading too many free articles, which was non destructive, why is Mel Sembler not being arrested for attempting to destroy data?

There has been a ruling by a federal judge that it is only a felony if technical or code based barriers are bypassed. This has occurred. Given that sembler.com attempted to conceal their identity by doing anonymous edits, especially since they played whack a mole with the IP's they used, I'd call that bypassing technical or code based barriers. When one IP drew attention, they'd switch to another. This was done multiple times. It was done to get around specific IP addresses being watched for edits as these IP's had been noted performing deletions previously. In other words, bypassing both technical and code based barriers. I think there is a solid argument here.

I need to get the word out about this. Spread the word. tell anyone who may care. Copy and paste this anywhere you feel is relevant.

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New Info / Re: Renaissance or Renaissance Project - Ellenville, NY
« on: December 03, 2011, 09:58:47 PM »
hey  StillStanding -

I was at Renaissance in 1992-1994. I came there from East Ridge (if you know the FFS, then you know of East Ridge)

I think Renaissance has chilled out some over the years - they still shaved heads, did stocking caps, signs, etc, but it, at least to me, seemed therapeutic. Some of the best camaraderie i had there was when i was in spare parts with 2 signs and a bald head sleeping on floor in hallway  (for kicking open the COD's door when I was the BO coordinator and calling the other  coordinators a bunch of "no belly hypocritical motherfuckin' punks" with a lobby full of folks standing for a haircuts, storming back out and then sitting on "the chair" in protest  :P - and frankly they deserved it)

The very next month when Job assignments came out I was Guru :) Seems some staff took heart of my complaints.... I think Jim Colerel (spelling? Jeez how many times did i have to write that name as a expediter, yet now i forget how to spell it?) was one who went to bat for me. He got mad when I did not request my signs off :)

Anyhow, while there i met two different teens that had come there from FFS, and they told me Renaissance was *much* easier to deal with than FFS had been. And having come from East Ridge myself, i felt Renaissance was easier to deal with than East Ridge.

Ya, they still did blow aways, haircuts, signs, costumes, shaved heads, etc etc, still got our asses woken up at 4am for GM's, but things followed a certain logic and consistent rules that seemed to be lacking at East Ridge and FFS. Haircuts, blowaways, etc could no longer be done on "general principal" as I hear they had been in the past.

For most the environment would seem abusive. From where *I* had come from, it was a freakin' vacation.

They discouraged teenagers from coming there, but would still take pretty much anyone who "sat on the chair" and screamed for help loud enough in their interview :) So there were maybe 3-4 teenagers out of 100 or so folks when i was there. Not one of the teens graduated when I was there - all left before phasing out.

It is definitely a New York only program. Westchester mostly really. Some folks there from the Bronx, manhattan, brooklyn, but most were Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Yonkers folks. They still have their storefronts in those cities, and the adminsitrative offices are still on center street in new rochelle.

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