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Comments on news posted 2003-11-14 13:36:04: New legislation delivers jail time to anyone offering pirated films via a shared drive, but what if a user isn't aware they're sharing pirated films?. ..
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 | Cybertoad
join:2001-11-08
Houston, TX
| The world has gone insane ... So if a "car jacker" steals my car and then runs
over and kills a person down the street, it's my
fault and I should go to jail?
This is an analogy but it is essentially the same thing.
If a computer hacker hijaaks your computer and uses it
to commit a crime, holding the owner of the computer
responsible is no different than the example above.
They need to stop focusing on who owns the property on
all these cases and start giving a lot more consideration
and thought to who actually committed the crime.
Why don't they do it the way they should? Because it's
harder to prosecute and harder to prove the "who" than
the "with what".
However, you cannot morally hold someone liable who did
not actually commit the crime or even have any involvment
or knowledge of it whatsoever.
I'm also finding a lot of cases turn up where no crime
was even committed but charges were pressed anyway due
to mistakes in ISP traffic logs, bad information, etc.
The world has totally and utterly lost it's mind! | |
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RavensSoul5
join:2000-09-05
Wray, CO
| Bahhhhh welcome to the post PatriotAct Police $tate$ of AmeriKa.
all they have to have is a suspicion of criminal action and a person can be tossed into jail. | |
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ircd-pumpkin
@comcast.net
| Re: Bahhhhh Not too long ago I seem to recall the RIAA website getting broken into, and that you could download a 'pre-release' Limp Bizkit album by simply clicking over to www.riaa.org.
The point is that anyone can have their computer compromised, even career IT admins. Lets not treat all people who were targeted by malicious crackers as criminals. Someday you may find yourself a few days behind on a patch, or hit by an unpublished vulnerability. | |
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| This law is bullshit. It would be like suing Boeing and putting Boeing workers in jail for "knowingly manufacturing aircraft that could be used to destroy buildings when hijacked" or something along that line.
I declare open hacking and spamming season on anyone who tries to pass this draconian law. Hack their computers, force them to run software that corrupts their BIOS, and then try to steal their identity or something. | |
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Look at it like this