The Price of Copyright Violation, Komputer, More Hacking
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> DENNY HAYES STR FOCUS? * EXCLUSIVE! * "..if I single someone out.."=====================THE PRICE OF COPYRIGHT VIOLATION================================STReport has obtained directly from DENNIS HAYES his very ownstatements concerning his arrest and ultimate conviction for copyrightviolation. Names of individuals and companys mentioned have beenremoved or blocked out.by Dennis Hayes aka "Denny" HayesPart I======This is the statement I prepared to read at my sentencing, but wasadvised not to read, because the judicial system doesn't like you sayingbad things about them. I've also added a comment at the end. I've triedto make sure it's as truthful as I can. If there are any mistakes, itwasn't intentional. Of course everything is from my point of view. Ican't pretend to be someone else, and think like them. Many are going toread this, and say I got what I deserved. Ignorance is bliss. To affectwhat happens to me has nothing to do with me writing this. My sentencingis over, and what I say here makes little difference with respect to me.But if anything, I say here, can help keep anyone else from going throughthis, it was worth it, and will make me feel what I have gone through hadsome purpose.S T A T E M E N TYour honor,I've been informed that I should make a statement in my behalf. I'vehad a long time trying to decide what to say, but it's hard to decide whatto say. I'm not an attorney, and don't know what will help me or hurt me,and I doubt that it makes any difference what I say. If I say somethinggood about myself it comes out that I'm trying to pretend to be an in-nocent bystander. If I comment on the many problems I've had to date, I'mlooked at as a complainer, and most of us have problems in life. If I saynothing, my family has to suffer. If I comment on the questionable tac-tics used to prosecute me, I'm passing the buck, and not accepting blamefor my actions. And in reality most of the agents I've met are surpris-ingly intelligent, and fair. I even thought of mentioning one who hastried his best to be fair, but I'm afraid if I single someone out it mightput him in bad light. Anyway, he knows who he is, and he has my thanks.Since I'm not sure what is best said, I'm just going to say what Ifeel, trying not to hurt anyone, and let it fall where it may. And sincethe pre-sentencing investigation report started when I was in grade sch-ool, so will I.I'm a technically oriented person who started school, and really en-joyed learning new things. When the rest of my peers were playing base-ball, I was studying. And for this effort I had the words honor pupilwritten on the side of my report card every year. The problem was, andis, there is no reward for this effort. The kid who can knock a home run,and lean against the wall looking cool, without saying a thing gets allthe attention. In reality he probably says nothing because he can't puttwo syllables together to form a word.There are many other advantages to not appearing smarter than anyone.When my oldest daughter was in the first grade, she could already read,because I had spent the time to teach her. Her teacher complained to methat I should stop teaching things to her ahead of time, because it madeit hard for the teacher to teach her, when she already knows, the thingsshe is trying to teach to her. I guess they want everyone at the samelevel now. Just a couple weeks ago she came home, and said she had toredo a report she had turned in, because she had done it on a computer,and was told it wasn't fair to the kids that didn't have one. I guess shealso shouldn't use her brain, if the rest of the class doesn't have one asgood either.So around the sixth grade I decided that if I didn't appear toosmart I might be accepted a little more. That was easy, just fail a fewtests on purpose. The problem was it didn't work. I just didn't thinklike most people, and I didn't like baseball, or football. Also, in mostother areas I didn't think the same. And I didn't take what was told tome by others without trying to find out what was really true. Which isprobably a large factor that brought me here.I joined the navy after graduating from high school, and enteredelectronics school. I graduated in the top 10% of my class, and wasjumped to the next rank.In college I didn't understand the importance of a degree. I justloved electronics, and wanted to learn everything about it that I couldwithout wasting time on subjects like English, and Psychology. Or maybe Iwas just impatient. So even though I've had many hours, I never matric-ulated, and therefore never received a degree.After school I started working for a company as a non degreed engi-neer, at $3.10 per hour. Very quickly I was considered the oddball elect-ronics wizard of the company. This upset the former wizards, who tried tomake it as hard as they could for me. After three, and a half years, Ihad all the political beating I could take, so I quit, and took a job asassistant chief engineer with a new company, which was, four years later,bought out by the same guy that started Days Inn Motel chain. During thetransfer they had a flood which put them out of business. So I was leftwithout a job.I then started working for consulting engineering firms on assignmentto large companies like Procter & Gamble, Monsanto, AM Kinny, etc.As I started having a family, I wanted to make a better living forthem, and myself. Large Fortune 500 companies required a degree, and youreally didn't need to know much. And smaller companies didn't pay much.They liked being able to hire someone who is good, and who they didn'thave to pay much. It's a shame that you get paid for the piece of paperrather that what you know, and can do. Prior to having a family, I reallydidn't care though, I loved what I was doing, and the money didn't matter.So I decided to start a company with a friend of mine. The problem was, Ididn't realize how lazy he was, and after some customers cancelled theirorders, because he didn't finish his part, I started my own company,designing, and building robotics, and test equipment for large corpora-tions.That was one of the biggest mistakes I ever made. I worked over 100hours a week, and made little money. Large corporations seem to get wherethey are by walking on small companies, and throwing them away when theyask a fair shake. I had a meeting on the eleventh floor of a local chemi-cal corporation tower, where they admitted they owed me thousands ofdollars, but were not going to pay, because they had hired some new younghot shots who wanted to do the job by themselves. The former head of thedepartment had been forced into an early retirement at the age of 59,which later caused him a heart attack. When I mentioned that I would haveto take them to court, I was informed that since all the orders, they hadgiven me, were rush orders, they hadn't sent me any paper work. In fact Idon't ever remember getting paper work on any jobs I ever did for them.Every job was a rush job, and if you wanted any future orders from themyou did what they ask. Of course I consulted an attorney, and of coursehe told me that I would be a fool to take on a company of that size. Imade the mistake one time to take a company to court, who owed me a largeamount of money, and I saw what happens. I won't go into detail of whatthe job was, if you are like most attorneys, high tech stuff is out ofyour realm, and it would take too long to explain. But to make it simple,it was an assembly job, something any low tech person could do. I didthis job, on 30 day open account payment, which is quite usual in theelectronic world. I sent the first half open account. But before thesecond half of the order was completed, I was informed by another company,that they had a bad reputation for not paying their debts. So I made thesecond half COD. True to form they didn't pay for the first half.After months of run around phone calls about the person being respon-sible for payment being out of town, etc, I decided to take them to court.They counter-sued, saying the units I'd done were defective. And withoutnotifying me, or giving me the opportunity to repair any supposed defect,they said, they had repaired them at a cost of twice what I charged themfor the whole order. My attorney felt since they were caught in many liesin court, and they admitted they never contacted me about any defects, wewould win. Two weeks later the decision came down that I owed them allthey asked for, and I got nothing. What happened, who knows. SinceCincinnati is not a very good place for a high tech business, and I'd hadquite a few other bad debts, I was forced into bankruptcy.But not being the kind of person who gives up, I started again with abusiness manufacturing printed circuit boards, and consumer products. Iguess this was like jumping from the frying pan to the fire. At one timeCincinnati had about a dozen specialty electronic design companies intown. Now there is only one I know of. They have all realized there isno money in it. So I'm sure it's not just my ability to run a business.People save up a little money and get the idea to sell some widget orsomething. They hire someone like me to design it f...
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