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May 24, 2007

It Started With A Few Downloads...

Portopotty_2 Bruce Forest, an infamous internet pirate (but never charged), will finally be doing real time. But just as they got Al Capone on Tax Evasion charges, Bruce Forest will do five years for: blowing up toilets. (link)

Bruce was busted for lathering up port-o-potties with the flash powder Tannerite, stuff that explodes when shot with a bullet - or an m-4 assault rifle (Bruce’s gun o choice). (link)

Now, I am not claiming that the recording industry has anything to do with this ‘elder statesman of the darknet’ losing his shit (according to Bruce the Subutex he was given to beat his Hydrocodone addiction is what pushed him over the edge). In fact Bruce was actually more of a double agent, a pirate who also p2pd for the man (link). But perhaps, as this sordid tale making its way around the internets hints, the real gateway drug is Downloading.

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