OT: Court Sentences Pirate to 5 Years

[Gryphin]

"This is checkmate to you, Blasek. The court wants to see your king fall," the judge said, according to sources close to the case who were in the courtroom during sentencing.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117022,tk,dn072204X,00.asp

I think this is worth sharing.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Huh. Arther C. Clarke, I think, wrote a short story about a chess master who commited some sort of fraud and had his credit card taken away for a year. It was an electronic society with utopian tendencies, so the story centered around his difficulty in coming to grips with being helpless and having to rely on other people.