Re: Is this what we're doing now?
No, it wasn't an illegal gain. It was bought with money he earned. Just because you don't like him doesn't make every single thing he does a crime.
WW2 Enigma machine to be seized from shamed pharma bro Shkreli
A World War II German Enigma machine will be among the valuables a US court plans to seize from convicted felon and shamed former pharmaceuticals exec Martin Shkreli. The Enigma box is listed among the valuable assets American prosecutors plan to take to help cover the $7.4m in forfeiture the New York Eastern District ordered …
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Monday 4th December 2017 23:01 GMT d3vy
Re: Is this what we're doing now?
"No it's the courts saying you have no money to pay your fine so will will seizes assets that equivalent to that fine"
Wouldn't it be great if everyon could agree NOT to bid on it xcept for one (maybe a museum) meaning he loses that asset and STILL has a fine at the end.
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Sunday 3rd December 2017 21:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Auction ....I have a feeling the auction will bombe.
IIRC during the financial crisis large houses in Dublin had become something of a bubble, and some of them had been bought by the more successful boys with the Armalites. Who ran into a spot of financial bother. When the houses were auctioned they sent the boys round to try to "persuade" bidders to offer more than the owners had paid.
I can imagine Shkreli sending his friends round to discourage purchase of his assets.
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Saturday 2nd December 2017 19:22 GMT emmanuel goldstein
Let's face it, after "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 chambers)", which is pure genius and immortal, the Wu-Tang Clan's output has been progressively more shit. That's why they flogged OUATIS to a div with more money than taste. Fair play to them and more fool him.
BTW, did you know "The Clan" recently sued a dog-walking outfit called "Woof-Tang Clan" for breach of copyright? I shit you not.
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Monday 4th December 2017 10:14 GMT Tannin
Credit where it's due please
Look, the guy is not a total tosser, He did at least do his best to effectively erase all public access to a couple of hip-hop recordings and thus improve the world of music by some very small percentage. In recognition of this selfless and valuable act, I propose a reduction of his sentence. About three seconds seems fair.
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Monday 4th December 2017 14:22 GMT Roland6
"It was just a (very good) encryption tool used in normal business well before and after the war."
FTFY
Enigma was widely used after the war, in part because the UK government kept both Bletchley Park and the breaking of Enigma secret, because many foreign governments thought it was secure and unbreakable...
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Monday 4th December 2017 20:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
Superboffin?
So, in the world of RegUnits (TM), how do we distinguish between the already exalted term of boffin, and superboffin? What extra feat of boffinry do you need to commit to climb the scale of boffinism? Are there additional levels - ultraboffin? Uberboffin?
This has put far too much doubt and confusion into my already fragile world.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
