Is D-Man2010 a larger-than-life character?
D-Man2010’s anger on this point is vehement. In our correspondence, he repeatedly returns to his belief that aging police officers, often without any relevant experience, lead UK anti-piracy initiatives and target those “right at the bottom of the food chain”. This anger is deeply linked to D-Man2010’s experience of being charged with piracy. It turns out he’s happy to talk about it, but it’s a complicated tale, one that involves three different UK agencies pursuing three different charges – including “Telephonery Fraud” – none of which stuck due to lack of evidence (D-Man2010 claims he has no criminal record). During these explanations, there’s a lot of blazing invective aimed at John Loader, the head of what was then FAST and one of the seven people who apparently burst into D-Man2010’s bedroom to arrest him when he was 15.