I didn't hear the "WHOOSH". Maybe one of Perkins associates stole it and is planning on releasing it on the net ;). - See what I did there. The ;) implies a joke or sarcasm. If you want people to understand your subtle sarcasm I suggest using it. I'm not at all a person that believes "Once a criminal..." and haven't had my identity stolen. But when someone admits getting caught with all that and then tries to feed me some BS about "needing to eat" (Which who knows if it was a joke or not) I don't give there words much credit thereafter.

AHAHAHAHAHA, OMG. Did you just compare selling copyrighted goods to slavery. FFS give your head a shake. And P.S. that was the 1800's welcome to 2013. Take your time and come up with an analogy that involves dinosaurs next time.

The fact that you have mail, cards, ids and reports contradicts "needed to eat". You could maybe use that with a single stolen card you got caught using at mcdonalds. But the fact that you had all these different types of material for multiple people...that consequently are all used for identity theft And no stealing from people or stealing their identities isn't better than mooching of your mother. Maybe you need to spend some more time in jail so you understand that.

Over compensating? 1. He broke the law 2. He knew he was doing it 3. He got caught How do acknowledging and agreeing with the facts become over compensation, and what do my machines have to do with Perkins getting caught and sent to jail. You're trying to somehow redirect this idiots criminal activity and subsequent punishment on to me? lol, grow up. There's no debate going on here.

How does your anus feel loser? lol what kind of dumbass would keep all of that in a duffel bag and have it in their possession. You should be on the worlds dumbest criminals.

Perkins isn't gonna get a single ounce of sympathy from me. Whether you agree with the law or not doesn't matter. You can sit here and compare it to other criminal activity all you want. Complain all day and night about how police should be investing time in other things, blah, blah, blah. We've heard it all before every time a piracy topic comes up and guess what, it's still against the law. Perkins 100% broke the law knowingly, so it's time to pay the piper Jeramiah Perkins, of Portsmouth, Va. He knew there was a chance he could get caught and end up in jail, there is a history of movie pirates getting jail time. But he didn't take the necessary precautions to avoid getting caught, and all of a sudden. KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK...bad boys, bad boys whatcha gonna do... Bend over Jeramiah, Bubba is now going to stick his junk inside you. Learn how to be a better criminal or don't be one at all.

I'm sorry is there an echo in here?

a) "A small number of users" is Other users no? Pretty pointless comment. b) Apple says "A small number of customers" and they're completely unbiased here so I should take their word.

Other users and Apple disagree with you.

It's funny how so many people jump all over RIM in a situation like this but completely forget when the east coast earthquake knocked out all the Android and iPhones and BlackBerrys were the only thing working.

Or just don't use Android and don't worry about flashing or having to be cautious of what you download, where you visit, running a virus scanner etc. Wasn't this one of the biggest arguments on /. forever for why to use Linux over windows?

I'm on Rogers and it was down over night while I was sleeping it looks like. It was back up this morning and is running fine. I don't know what you're talking about 3 days.

Using BBM right now, no problems whatsoever.

I use a BlackBerry specifically for security and I think a lot of others do as well. So it's unlikely any of us would want an Android phone with the consistent malware and security problems it has.

Not sure when it went out last night, must have been when I was sleeping. But it started working again this morning for me. Don't know about the europe situation but N.A. service wasn't affected very much at all it seems.