Posted on 07/08/2008 9:36:37 AM PDT by Clint Williams
"The access to MySpace was unauthorized because using a fake name violated the terms of service. The information from a "protected computer" was the profiles of other MySpace users. If this is found to be a valid interpretation of the law, it's really quite frightening. If you violate the Terms of Service of a website, you can be charged with hacking. That's an astounding concept. Does this mean that everyone who uses Bugmenot could be prosecuted? Also, this isn't a minor crime, it's a felony punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment per count. In Drew's case she was charged with three counts for accessing MySpace on three different occasions."
The criminal justice system has nothing serious to do, I guess.
Where are the Terms of Service for FR posted?
She must have been using it to trick somebody, ala Megan Meier, and they have to act like they're actively doing something to stop it.
It's fun to be a sacrificial lamb.
Other than to turn lots of folk into criminals? There's a quote there, something about control, but I don't remember it.
Stop the beating! I confess!
My real name is Glenn.
Glenn is just an alias on here.
I better ‘fess up to all of you right now. Joe 6-pack is’nt my real name.
Hmmmm......maybe I outta stop registering with the online name of “Nunya_Business”.
BTW, does anybody ever really read those user agreements anyway?
I have had someone create an account on a different forum in my name, then used that false account to attack me.
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws”
Seems like a lot of information is missing about this story.
I started to read one from MicroSoft once and got to the part where they said “We will control the horizontal; we will control the vertical” and gave up.
Lori Drew is the woman who allegedly used Myspace to provoke a teenage girl to commit suicide.
This has to do with that girl that committed suicide because a friends Mom posed as someone else. If this is applied to all websites we will be required to share our personal information with the world, to be sold for pennies, name, address, phone, etc , to access websites that may just be spam/virus sites.
The connection with Megan Meier’s suicide is entirely missing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Meier
That's it! Thanks!!
... The problem is that there is no generally accepted definition of what unauthorized means in this context. Law makers either didn't define the term or if they did, used such sweeping language that the definition is plainly overbroad. One Kansas statue defined access as "to approach, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve data from, or otherwise make use of any resources of a computer." A judge rejected that definition, saying that if it was used, then "any unauthorized physical proximity to a computer could constitute a crime" and instead used the definition of access from Webster's dictionary.Such overarching language is also common in the terms of service used by ISPs and websites to define what is allowed to happen on their website or service. These documents are written by lawyers trying to shield their employers / clients from harm, not set up a set of usable rules of conduct. As such they are routinely ignored by both service providers and visitors. Commonly they contain clauses that no reasonable person could expect to abide by. One example is a TOS that expects users to not "violate any local, state, federal, or non-U.S. law, order, or regulation." In conjunction with the CFAA, wouldn't this make violating any law from any country a violation of US law? Another clause which is commonly found in a TOS, is to not include any content which is "threatening, abusive, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, vulgar, obscene, profane or otherwise objectionable." This type of clause seems to be intended to prohibit being mean on the Internet. ...
"A Los Angeles federal grand jury has indicted a woman for her alleged role in a MySpace online hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide.
Lori Drew of St Louis, Missouri was indicted on Thursday on one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorisation to obtain information to inflict emotional distress.
Each of the four counts carries a maximum possible penalty of five years in prison.
Drew allegedly helped create a fake MySpace account to contact neighbour Megan Meier who thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans."
The prosecutor is just trying to tag as much as possible on this b!tch.
My real name is ‘Tater Salad.
This IS the woman who tricked Megan Mier....The /dotards left that part of the story out.
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