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Those seem like ideas on how to get past customs more easily, not necessarily an admission of any wrongdoing.
by okasaki 9y ago
Those seem like ideas on how to get past customs more easily, not necessarily an admission of any wrongdoing.
- DEFCON28 9y agoHuh? Lying to customs isn’t “wrongdoing”? You need to get a new moral compass.
- tripletao 9y agoIn fairness, it's incredibly common--I once ordered from a Chinese site where the order form had a field for the value that you wanted them to declare. You won't usually get caught, but the government isn't usually too happy if you do.
- MichaelGG 9y agoThe rest of his emails are about pushing sales, saying he'll fix issues to make it more legit looking, but encouraging his sales guy to move the product.
- notahacker 9y agoLying to customs was the wrongdoing that initially saw him indicted. The easy way to not have any issues with customs of course, would be to send disks without decoration as "blank CDs". Ockham's razor suggests this approach is the one you'd take if you meant to ship people a helpful installation CD at cost price. Instead, he pays a lot of attention to whether they can pass for the real thing to customers, and then notes that for some product lines them looking like the real thing is forcing him to pay extra to send them airmail because customs check anything that looks like shipped software CDs with the licence holder...