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House Passes Spyware Bills

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-to-the-law dept.

stinerman writes "Today the house passed two bills aimed at stopping spyware / adware and unauthorized use of computers. H.R. 29 makes it 'unlawful for any person who is not the owner or authorized user of a protected computer to engage in deceptive acts or practices'. H.R. 744 (I-SPY Act) prohibits accessing a protected system via code copied on to the system to, among other things, disseminate personal information. Both bills sailed through the house and are expected to be passed by the Senate."

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  1. The pist... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...is it frosty enough? Claimed for Mercky-Chan! esmqcey

  2. so... by sbeam.dk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    now all spyware companies is gonna outsource to india instead?

    1. Re:so... by treff89 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      (1) There should be no space between 'fragment' and the comma, and this should be a fullstop anyway; (2) 'till' should not be captialised, there should be a space in between 'spelling' and '(your'; (3) 'your' should be 'you've' as in 'you have misspelt 'grammar', and 'Grammar' should not be capitalised; (4) 'tongue' is spelt thus. Correctly written, this statement should be written: ""Dude!" is a sentence fragment. Until you learn correct grammar and spelling (you misspelt 'grammar'), I think you should bite your tongue before correcting others." -- Said statement obviously applies to the AC himself. I'm not going to post anonymously, just pointing out some irony.

    2. Re:so... by Simon+for+$1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      When will people learn to just let the grammar errors go? I know it's hard, but just ignore it.

      BTW, "Dude!" could also be an interjection and it's just fine, although I'll agree with you on the total waste of a post.

  3. mod d03n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    blue, ruuber save Linux from a pro-homosexual OS don't fear the

  4. Re:One more law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You left out reproducing.

  5. Phew at least non for non-windows users! by tod_miller · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    unlawful for any person who is not the owner or authorized user of a protected computer to engage in deceptive acts or practices

    Even I could argue in court that anyone running a windows computer is unprotected, and IANAL!

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  6. Democracy at work by stwar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A while back they passed a law where it was illegal to kill someone, but is it working? No it isn't. Our Elected few have blanketed us with a safety net of false security that does not work, Inherit problems with in a capitalistic world simply can not work any more, in todays information age. I belive that if it were not for media brainwashing people we would have long ago done something about it. Every day we are told "news" of how the entier gov. is corrupted and we have become numb to is becouse of the fears placed upon us by the media. and think about it all the wars and legislation is there becouse of the inherit problems with Capitalisam. You got fake Democracy in USA where it is clearly Fasicam brought upon the people by the Corporate wealth of the few. Not the true majority.

  7. yoU FAIL it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    = 1400 NetBSD About bylaws like I should 3e 7000 users of Lesson and a GAY NIiGGER

  8. Re:One more law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or posting

  9. Re:One more law by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You forgot to add "breathing."