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Pimpshiz: Legal Action for 200 Web Defacements and Digital Activism

Calendar Jan 13, 2001 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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The law appears to have caught up with "Pimpshiz," the hacker allegedly responsible for defacing some 200 Web sites last year with pro-Napster graffiti. On Friday, police investigating the Web site break-ins confirmed they had searched the Pleasant Hill, Calif., home . . . The law appears to have caught up with "Pimpshiz," the hacker allegedly responsible for defacing some 200 Web sites last year with pro-Napster graffiti. On Friday, police investigating the Web site break-ins confirmed they had searched the Pleasant Hill, Calif., home of a 17-year-old high school student and confiscated computer equipment last month.

"My defacements are protests," he said. "I want people to think about the Napster case positively, not negatively." The Contra Costa (Calif.) County district attorney's office had only been investigating for a few weeks before it searched the teenager's home under a warrant, Deputy District Attorney Dodie Katague said Friday.

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