What happened was a dude with a one way agenda, was trying to gain access into boards via becoming a sponsor (ProM was not the only one he tried at) and too many red flags went off with certain admins and mods of those boards and he was rejected.
So he resorted to a "Scorched Earth" tactic and handed over as much info about the sources as he possibly could. Nian and IP were using Zoomshare to provide a "list" of their role playing imaginary products. Zoomshare was contacted and told to remove the pages or else.
The other info like WU info, where the packs were shipped from, etc... well that much is probably already available to LE anyway. All they have to do is sign up on a board and contact the sources themselves. Then they pretty much have all the basic info.
Just to show the amount of "e-years" I have been around..... when I first started in the internet biz with stuff like this there were only 2-3 guys around (and this was about 5 years before IP ever surfaced) and none of them had a web page or website of any kind. You had to be trusted enough to get a referral, send an email off, and sometimes wait 3-5 DAYS for a response from the source while they tracked down the minimum # of references you had to have vouch for you. None of this auto-response stuff was available with Ziplip at the time. (Ziplip = that's a blast from the past)
You got the list and if you ordered, it was usually 12-30 days before your package came and that was from a DOMESTIC source. Dudes were driving to different states/cities than where they lived to mail the packages off just for safety precautions.
Nowdays, safety comes second to $$$$$. Sad to say.
