Whether the law is right or wrong, legal or illegal is immaterial. The law is the law and any company or individual that entangles our business in their criminal activity without our knowledge has taken liberties that are not theirs to take and does not deserve our support. When someone uses our site to violate the law they put our business at risk, and that risk is not theirs to take.

After reading the 80 page search warrant request document it was clear that those involved knowingly and willingly violated the law not for the public good (i.e. civil disobedience to change the law) but for their own personal gain (i.e. greed). It was also clear based on the kingsnake.com references ad nauseum that those not already banned were abusing their privileges here to violate those laws.

When your web site or business is referenced so many times in a public document in regards to criminal activity, when your livelihood and the livelihood of thousands of other people that depend on your services is put in jeopardy by the criminal actions of others without your knowledge or consent, then you can lecture about civil disobedience and "illegal laws". In other words when your horse is this high, you can tell me to get off mine.

We will be happy to review the account status of anyone arrested or charged and has had those charges dismissed, but if the review determines that the dismissal was obtained through error,
or plea bargain, and that the charges themselves were valid,
that our systems were in fact used for illegal activity, then the individual or business will not be allowed to return.

We receive on average 28 subpoenas per year, and in fact received
many subpoenas in regards to this specific case. In many cases we work closely with law enforcement. Quite often we have access to documentation and information that the public does not. Finally we have a pretty good BS detector so on the rare occasion where charges have been dismissed we have the access and ability to determine the validity of the charges.

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