>><i>The Bangkok Post says the men were arrested on several charges including overstaying their visas, working without a permit, using unregistered SIM cards, and, according to a later report also from the Bangkok Post, smuggling.</i><p>So if they had arranged the correct visas, paid for a business license and bought the SIM cards legitimately, they could have continued to operate legally. Perhaps all of the above would have reduced their margins to nothing, but I still find it interesting that the actual operation of a clickbot network was never really in question.<p>I wouldn't even know what part of [inter]national law(s) that could/would be covered by.
This, uh... It just doesn't appear to be anything criminal.<p>I mean, it's not even unsavory. It's not embezzlement. It's not fraud. It's not even spam.<p>Is it a waste of electricity?<p>Oh... I guess so...<p>Yeah, wasting electricity is "<i>kind of</i>" irksome. Maybe. (depending on context)