Kid gets Jail Time for using a hack to kick people off COD

[Ginga]

A U.K. teen using a tool called "Phenom Booter" to kick players off Call of Duty servers back in September is now enjoying a stay in jail following an investigation by the Manchester police department.

Phenom Booter, which triggers a denial-of-service attack that can clear a server of specific users, or all of them, is a hack that had been shopped around forums earlier in this year. Type it into YouTube and you'll see a number of demonstrations. The e-cops were able to trace the attack to the Greater Manchester area and, ultimately, to the unidentified 17-year-old in question. He faces charge of violating the U.K.'s Computer Misuse Act of 1990.

Bit harsh, don't you think?

[BarryChuckle]

I'd happily serve jail time if I could kick kids off the CoD servers.

[Venomous Albino]

The thing is, he probably wasn't kicking kids off the servers. He was more than likely kicking people off for personal gain; levelling up quicker, hacking of some sort... I don't know, as I'm not that computer savvy. My point is, it's not his right to do it, so fuck him.

[Jonesy201]

The thing is, he probably wasn't kicking kids off the servers. He was more than likely kicking people off for personal gain; levelling up quicker, hacking of some sort... I don't know, as I'm not that computer savvy. My point is, it's not his right to do it, so fuck him.

I read the story in the paper.
Thats exactly what he was doing, trying to level up quicker etc.

[Venomous Albino]

The thing is, he probably wasn't kicking kids off the servers. He was more than likely kicking people off for personal gain; levelling up quicker, hacking of some sort... I don't know, as I'm not that computer savvy. My point is, it's not his right to do it, so fuck him.

I read the story in the paper.
Thats exactly what he was doing, trying to level up quicker etc.

Well there we are then. Fuck him.

[Ginga]

Yeah but Jail Time?
A guy can drink drive and potentially kill someone and not get jail, yet using a hack on a game does?

[CuriousTurtle]

Yeah, sure he'll go to jail...

[Johnny Shoulder]

Must be a five star jail for him to be 'enjoying his stay'

[Ginga]

I doubt he'll even go to jail, but to even say that's an option is over the top.

[BarryChuckle]

They'll be doing it to scare him a little, and use him as an example to the potentially thousands of other hackers that could easily have done the same thing.

There's ****** all chance he'll do time.

[CherryCokeChaos]

apparently he had "no idea what he was doing" bollcoks!

[Dante3000]

If I paid money for something and had some little fart stopping me from using it... I'd slap in jail do not pass go