Comment Re: hmmm (Score 2) 86
I agree partially with the point, but there is a bit of a difference between a huge publicly-traded corporation that had to jump through a zillion hoops to form up and gain a presence, and the fly-by-night one-man scam 'store' that some dude set up online.
Yeah, Enron, Worldcom... they disappeared, but only after a long drawn-out process. It was kind of a big news thing when each one of them were slowly drawn and quartered into oblivion - and there were a shit-ton of assets to garnish/seize along the way. Amazingly enough, the board of directors were all rather easily found and many were dragged into court.
At the other end of the scale, we have "Bob's l33t g4m3r p4rtz store!!!11!". It can cash out its bank account and evaporate into nothing within an hour, at least after enough credit card transactions clear/post to make the scam worthwhile (but long before the chargebacks and cops come flying in). Assets? Yeah - that consists of a domain name, a PO Box for the checks (maybe), and approximately 150MB of crappy cloned website full of copied pictures/text, sitting on a $10/mo hosted webserver? Oh, and good luck finding the dude who ran the scam - he's likely on another continent anyway.
I mean c'mon... perspective, man!