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Are Programmers Responsible For the Actions of Their Clients?
Bobfrankly1 writes "Robert Stuart and his company Extensions Software are being charged by New York authorities, claiming he is promoting gambling in New York because of the actions of his clients. They are charging him after he rejected a plea agreement that would have him plead guilty to lesser charges, adding backdoors to his software, and using said backdoors to gather details on his clients and their customers." Another article on the case at Salon.
Too many fuckers running around thinking they have a right to tell everyone what they can do. Why are obsolete Christianity-based laws against gay marriage, prostitution, gambling, etc allowed to exist in the 21st century?
Because you elected them. Idiot.
Holy crap, the US is !@#$%^. What a mess you've made of yourselves.
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He did do something to stop the illegal behaviour: He didn't sell his software to them.
He should sue for copyright infringement.
Why don't the police go after Facebook? I'm sure many poker nights have been organised via the social networking site.
So in the u.s it's legal to own an assault rifle, but not play poker with a couple of mates?
So by your logic, anyone who writes FTP clients/servers, or Web Browsers, or ANYTHING that could be used for Illegal activity, then they should be held accountable?
No thanks.
If it's only purpose is for illegal activities, then sure, prosecute away...
(IANAL) I have a feeling that if the guy wasn't selling it to anyone in the US or anyone outside the US that was using it for illegal purposes he probably won't wind up in jail. They've (Not necessarily NY) tried to hold other non-software companies liable for the actions of their customers and have failed.
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Are gun makers responsible for how their guns are used? :)
Of course not.
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Gambling is only gambling when the odds are equal for everyone, else it is a scam and those whom the odds favour are lying, cheating and stealing, that's the truth forget the bullshit. Typically the individual has to be charged so that he can be properly investigated to find out how much maintenance he was doing on his code. No one produced perfect code except the most simplest of it, first time around and the environment it which the code operates is itself continually changing, so maintenance is highly likely as is taking a percentage of income for reduced initial payment.
Not to forget asshat many part of Australia were settled by free citizens ie Adelaide was a free settled colony.
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Talk about lie, just check out any gambling add you like. TV, internet, news, magazine, radio, all of it to win it you have got to be in it, be a winner, win, win, win. So stop fucking lying, no gambling adds ever say, you are going to lose, the odds are stacked against you to ensure you lose, come lose with us. So lies all the way. Until gambling adds start telling the truth you just like them are a liar.
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