OK I’ve probably had the odd phone call about one of his scams (and told him, and other copycats to get lost), since I have written here about .eu before I am beginning to worry about some of the people eurid employ.
That begins to explain why six years on why eu is err well not here. If you want to have some fun on Peters behalf have a look at this post.
update 16/10/2005: He looks like this, and has got six years in prison.
Moving along here
The BSA presents German trade association Bitkom as witness. Bitkom has estimated that the average consumer pays out as much as €150 in private copy levies when he or she kits out a typical home office with a PC, scanner, printer and CD or DVD burner. That same customer then pays again for copy-protected music, the BSA says, and this is not fair.
But surely the BSA has not thought this one through. If Europeans are all paying for unpoliceable private copying already, why do we need DRM?
So next time some record company flunkie stands up and shouts and screams ‘theft’ just remember who stole from you in the beginning.
[...] Its been 6 (six) years since the intention to create it first began – our European leaders have been fast on this one. what was also quite ironic (funny) is that england leads the way in holding .eu domains – is england anti europe – based on this one fact you might argue no.Anyhow being that every con man (including 'I really will kill the police' Peter Francis-Macrae) has tried to scam 'preregister .eu domains' [...]
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Update from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/5385412.stm
Once a spammer always a spammer.
Comment by bananasfk — September 27, 2006 @ 23:25
[...] The tribe has thus deemed him a fruit cake. A prior post on Weaselboy Macrae [...]
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