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McOwen Case Settled

Posted by michael on from the hardly-any-bloodshed dept.

ewilts writes: "Back in July, you ran a story about David McOwen, a computer adminstrator at DeKalb Technical College in Georgia, who was being charged for installing SETI software on school computers. This case has now been settled. See also the EFF press release on McOwen's web site." Update: 01/18 16:11 GMT by M : It was software from distributed.net, not SETI.

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  1. Re:Powerful implications by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 2, Redundant

    this is a criminal case, not a civil case....since when is it illegal to do things like procrastinate and surf the web at work? those cost companies thousands and thousands of dollors....see anyone going to jail over that?

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  2. Michael Gets Score -1, Redundant by DCowern · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It seems michael doesn't read Slashbacks... this was posted yesterday: Slashback: Games, Goats, Galileo

  3. Re:Powerful implications by macdaddy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That makes no sense. It's like saying that he broke into the building even though they gave him the key. Makes no sense at all.