Teenagers Jailed For Criminal Version of Facebook 122
An anonymous reader writes "Three teenagers in the UK have been sentenced for up to five years in jail for creating and operating Gh0stMarket.net, one of the world's largest English-language internet crime forums. The Gh0stMarket website, which had about 8,000 members, was dubbed by the court as the 'criminal equivalent of Facebook,' or 'Crimebook.'"
Crimebook hehe (Score:5, Funny)
Michael Rowland: 'Gonna rob the local servo on Mitchel ave. 12am today..'
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Re:Crimebook? (Score:3, Funny)
It is an interesting question, but moot in this case because
WTF does Moot [wikipedia.org] have to do with this?
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft has taken a 2% stake valuing the site at 2 billion dollars....