Okay, it's saying anyone who is not the owner or authorized user of a protected computer can not do those things. So in other words, unless you own a protected comptuer, you can not create or send out spyware. Some of the replys seem to think that it is only protecting the "protected computers". What it is saying is that people who work for the government, banks, or foreign or interstate commerce and communication, are not held to thise act. So bankers, and the government can create spyware. But there is another loophole.
"a computer exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the U.S. Government," (notice this comma right there)" or a computer used in INTERSTATE or foreign commerce OR COMMUNICATION"
So many "or"'s. A computer used in interstate or foreign commerce OR communications. How many people here do not live in Texas, where I am from? Most of you? Well, that makes MY computer an interstate communcations device... Guess that means I can create spyware...
I run a message board, and at one time, I had a ton of programs and videos and flash files that people were doing the same thing to me. So what I did was write a php/mysql program that makes you authenticate, and then it creates a link that you can click, or it will automatically download in a set amount of time, and its only good for one click. No wget programs can get these files. If you want to try it out, goto http://downloads.tusclan.com and try it out. For instance, all of the superbowl commericals are there, so you can download them and try them out.
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Okay, it's saying anyone who is not the owner or authorized user of a protected computer can not do those things. So in other words, unless you own a protected comptuer, you can not create or send out spyware. Some of the replys seem to think that it is only protecting the "protected computers". What it is saying is that people who work for the government, banks, or foreign or interstate commerce and communication, are not held to thise act. So bankers, and the government can create spyware. But there is another loophole.
"a computer exclusively for the use of a financial institution or the U.S. Government," (notice this comma right there)" or a computer used in INTERSTATE or foreign commerce OR COMMUNICATION"
So many "or"'s. A computer used in interstate or foreign commerce OR communications. How many people here do not live in Texas, where I am from? Most of you? Well, that makes MY computer an interstate communcations device... Guess that means I can create spyware...
For those of you who really want this in a PDF format, I have converted it.
This is the download page, all you have to do is sign up for a free account (I only do this to prevent hot linking of files.)
I have converted this over to a PDF if anyone wants it. http://downloads.tusclan.com/index.php?op=moreinfo &fileid=1763
I run a message board, and at one time, I had a ton of programs and videos and flash files that people were doing the same thing to me. So what I did was write a php/mysql program that makes you authenticate, and then it creates a link that you can click, or it will automatically download in a set amount of time, and its only good for one click. No wget programs can get these files. If you want to try it out, goto http://downloads.tusclan.com and try it out. For instance, all of the superbowl commericals are there, so you can download them and try them out.