this is a very big and positive step...like my country men would say "mkono wa sheria siyo mfupi." NJ man is first to be charged with Web name theft By VICTOR EPSTEIN, Associated Press Writer - Mon Aug 3, 2009 6:04PM EDT UNION, N.J. - A northern New Jersey man is charged with stealing a prime piece of Internet real estate and reselling it to basketball player Mark Madsen in one of the nation's first prosecutions of a suspected domain name thief. Daniel Goncalves, 25, of Union, hacked into an online account belonging to one of the owners of the P2P.com<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_hi_te/storytext/us_tec_domain_name_theft/32928079/SIG=10ghd710h/*http://P2P.com>domain name, New Jersey State Police said Monday. He allegedly shifted ownership to himself and resold the Web site address on eBay to Madsen, a Los Angeles Clippersforward who did not know the name was stolen. http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090803/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_domain_name_theft Kind Regards, -- "Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us." James Harvey Robinson
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