Originally Posted by Akryn
Agreed that it's OT, but it's 100% not "understandable" to be shot to death by the police for leaving your house.
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No it is 100% understandable. Not right, but understandable. You try busting in after some dangerous ganster who may or may not have enough weaponry to start his own army, and see if your trigger finger isn't a little itchy. That doesn't mean it's right, or the officers involved shouldn't be punished, but when an officer in a situation like that sees someone come out with something that at first glance appears to be a gun, how that person could wind up getting shot is 100% understandable.
For that matter the OP did not provide any details surrounding this. For example, was he instructed to drop it and didn't? Was he instructed to lie down on the ground? Or was he shot on sight? At the point I don't even have enough information to say the officers involved
should be punished.
Originally Posted by ChaosInc
Not at all. However, there are plenty of people out there with outstanding warrants, a lot for minor offenses (bench warrants, for example). Are they all gonna start probing online games to try and catch them too? How about serving papers for a divorce?
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If they can make it work, why not? Of course they have to convince the judge that it's worth the subpoena, just as they do if they want your bank records. I'm not seeing a problem here, this is NO different from your bank records being subpoenaed, except the information is
less critical. I'm a damn sight more protective of my banking information than I am about the fact that I am about how well geared my main is and my IP address.
Originally Posted by ChaosInc
How about the thought of bill collectors starting to send you in-game spam?
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You go from a subpoena to bill collectors sending you in-game spam? That's one hell of a leap. But, again, assuming that Blizzard isn't just handing out your character information (which, remember, there was a subpoena involved here, Capital One can't issue one of those), I don't see how contacting you in game is any worse than calling you on the telephone.
Originally Posted by ChaosInc
Once again, for the 3rd time, how far does it go? How far will it be "acceptable" to probe people in online games for info?
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Exactly as far as the judge involved in the subpoena deems it so. Same with your bank account information.
Originally Posted by ChaosInc
I think the main issue people are missing here is not that a criminal was caught. The main issue is how severe does the charge have to be for this type of investigation to be "tolerable"?
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"tolerable"? It's tolerable for any investigation, I don't care if it's a warrant for a parking ticket. If the police can look up my address in the DMV records for it, I have no problem with WoW providing them my IP address when I'm not home. Worthwhile? Now there is the question.