(fwd) U.S. Internet activist languishes in Canada jail

[Bob Allisat <tor@wtv.net>]

The news is spreading people. And it's
 only a matter of time before the mass
 media lock on to this one and blow Internic
 and CORE - once they figure it out! - both
 to kingdom come!

http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/scitech/wires2/t_1105_14.sml

Quote:
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>  U.S. Internet activist languishes in Canada jail
>  12:38 p.m. EST (1738 GMT) November 5, 1997
> 
>  SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) ‹ Eugene Kashpureff, the domain-name hacker and
>  founder of the alternative Internet address registry, AlterNIC, who
>  recently added FBI fugitive to his resume, is languishing in a Toronto
>  jail pending a Wednesday hearing on extradition to the United States. 
>  Kashpureff's troubles ‹ he was picked up by the Royal Canadian Mounted
>  Police in a Toronto suburb last Friday and has been locked up in Toronto's
>  Metro West Detention Centre ever since ‹ grow out of last summer's repeated
>  hijacking of Web traffic trying to find Network Solutions Inc.'s InterNIC
>  domain-registration site. 
> 
>  He redirected users from www.internic.net (http://www.internic.net) to
>  his own www.alternic.net (http://www.alternic.net)in a "protest of the
>  so-called 'ownership' of domain names.'' 
> 
>  A one-time repo man, Kashpureff had called the redirect a ''repossession''
>  of InterNIC's domain name. 
> 
>  Although he settled out of court with Network Solutions and made an
>  apology to the Internet community, the FBI pursued criminal charges
>  against him. 
>
>  A 14-page affidavit details the government's wire fraud and computer
>  fraud case ‹ felony charges that could bring serious jail time and
>  fines. 
> 
>  Kashpureff attorney William R. Gilmour said his client was brought
>  before a Canadian immigration board Monday, but it was adjourned. 
> 
>  "There are two hearings coming up,'' he said. "One on how to get him out
>  of the country, which is (Wednesday) and one on whether or not he gets
>  bail, which is Monday.'' 
> 

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