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User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace
Recently a user, Lori Drew, was charged with a felony for the heinous crime of pretending to be someone else on the Internet. Using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Lori was charged for signing up for MySpace using a fake name. "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."
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Hugh G. Rection
How about taking down those dating (and other) sites which generate fake members?
;).
I'm in a country somewhere in Asia and it's "surprising" to see so many blondes in my city when you go look at those sites
OMG I just hacked slashdot, bow before my amazing hacking skillz
I'll only visit websites where I can invoke the Anonymous Coward!
Well as I doubt that 'Ethanol-fueled' is really your real name you have just commited a felony punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment
Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
Jeez. I can't remember how many times I entered in BillGates@Microsoft.com as an email address on some random site.
Guess that makes me a felon? Or am I only a felon if I get caught?
Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. But light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
My name is not Anonymous Coward. It's false. Can I be sued now?
If we are no longer allowed to use pseudonyms on the Internet without getting sued, I'm getting my name legally changed to "Anonymous Coward."
You appear to be using an alias, would like to come with us for a little while. -TLA(Three Letter Agency)
Drive a girl to commit suicide, and get prosecuted for loggin in under a fake name...
Yeah, what's the deal with that? That's like "Orchestrate the St. Valentine's Massacre, and get prosecuted for tax evasion." Just so friggin' wrong....
Sincerely,
A. Capone
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." -- Eric Hoffer
Oh no the jig is up! My real name isn't Cathoderoytube! My real name isn't even Roy! I don't know how to fix tvs! For the love of god don't throw me in jail!
I have nothing compelling to say
Depends. Is that MY snicker's bar, or someone else's?
or crank calls you as "I P Freely".
Is that some sort of net neutrality joke?
This was rated informative?
Besides the fact that the original poster was making an example of the types of terms a web site could set, what's the link to tomorrow's or next week's terms of service? There's nothing to stop a site from changing terms whenever they want. They could even change them per user, so you and I don't see the same terms.
By the way, it's funny that the file name in "http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.mspx" still adheres to the old 8.4 FAT file system name limits.
I thought about giving a fuck, reconsidered and kept the fuck. I'm sure there will be a better use for it.
a crime that 95% of law abiding people don't commit.
IANAL, but I think you're off by about 5% here.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!