If I was the judge I'd embrace it.

"Yeah I download porn and I'm proud of it. I'm a red blooded dirty minded american, what's it to ya?"

Actually, if property subject to forfeiture is encumbered by a security interest, it's standard procedure to satisfy the security interest out of the proceeds of selling the forfeited asset.

I'd go further and make DUI itself a felony.

And guess what happens to property used in the commission of a felony?

That's right, forfeiture.

Drive drunk, lose the car.

The farmer violated the rules of the establishment. Monsanto is a good corporate citizen and pays its congress critter tax. The farmer did not.

How do you vote with your wallet when the entire market presents a united front because everyone on the production side thinks DRM is the greatest thing since sliced bread?

It's hard to win a fight if everyone else gangs up on you.

They're already ganging up on us to forbid class action lawsuits starting with Sony.

Forbidding lawsuits entirely is probably not far behind.

Oh stick a fork in it.

Sadly, it's a defense article because the DoD fucking said so.

The sad news is that people are probably going to rage more about this than they would for REAL politics that choose who gets into office.

Make sure they sign an NDA before you let them see anything.

They aren't going to buy it from you if they can steal it for free.

You seem to forget that members of "the establishment" have sovereign immunity to their own bullshit.

Why the hell not?

We wouldn't take it lying down if a software bug cheated US instead of the establishment, yes?

So why should we be self entitled pricks if the glitch happens to fall in our favor instead of against us?

You can't have it both ways.

Or just charge him with cheating.

Hell, it's even a felony in Nevada.

This case should have been simple.

Charge him with cheating. This is Nevada, which makes it a felony.

There was no need to even bring the feds into this at all.

The only difference between governments and the mafia is that the government just has bigger guns.

And this isn't even sarcasm. In the earlier days of history, Right of Conquest was a legally recoginzed principle of international law.