The person who should be held responsible for any action, is the person who commited the action. Like so many have already said, the company producing fire-arms can not be held responsible for murders. One gentleman felt that if the developer creates software that can be misused then he should be held responsible, this is the exact same situation as with guns. If AOL tries to make it easy for people to get on the web and in their efforts make it easy to hack into someone's PC. That does not make them the perpetrator. The person who hacks into the PC is wrong. If we support the idea that the developer / producer is wrong it will cause total chaos.
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The person who should be held responsible for any action, is the person who commited the action. Like so many have already said, the company producing fire-arms can not be held responsible for murders. One gentleman felt that if the developer creates software that can be misused then he should be held responsible, this is the exact same situation as with guns. If AOL tries to make it easy for people to get on the web and in their efforts make it easy to hack into someone's PC. That does not make them the perpetrator. The person who hacks into the PC is wrong. If we support the idea that the developer / producer is wrong it will cause total chaos.