Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

Move to ipv6 already

Given the jail time, I am surprised he wasn't on the Forbes 30 under 30 list.

This highlights something tangential, but interesting nevertheless: Oftentimes getting embroiled in a civil lawsuit will, if impropriety is uncovered via the process of discovery, lead to separate criminal charges.

The lesson here is that if you have something to hide, and it looks like you're going to be dragged into civil court (especially Federal civil court,) you should rush to settle or beg for arbitration behind closed doors.

The main element of the crime here was creating imaginary people to 'sign' the affidavits submitted to ARIN. Phony companies, phony people, etc.

Then the jail time is calculated based on the value of what was taken as a result of the fraud.

5 years seems fairly reasonable for a multi-million dollar scheme, involving multiple employees, explicitly designed to defraud.

No way, they're a dime a dozen million. NCP addresses are worth much more, because there were only 256 of them. That's where the big money's at. I saw the classic NCP address 134 (MIT-AI) appraised for millions on the Antique Information Superhighway Road Show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Control_Protocol_(ARPA...