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Draft Bill to "Fix" CFAA Won't
Authored by: kuroshima on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 01:07 PM EDT
If bit torrent is not allowed, I can see a lot of people
becoming criminals, given that MMOs such as WoW use the bit
torrent protocol to distribute the client, and client
patches...

The technology isn't good or evil, it's the use you make of
it that can be.

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I think they should alter it to include contracts
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 01:16 PM EDT

After all... Terms Of Service are really nothing more then Contract Law - minus one party being able to alter the terms of course.

So if someone is in breach of the terms of a Contract, they should also face prison time. That includes the high-level Management of any Company who is in breach of Contract terms.

When you think about it, if the Law is going to be a applied to a party to a situation where the party must "take it or leave it", it is certainly more appropriate to apply it to a situation where both parties to the agreement have control over the terms of agreement.

It makes far greater sense in a Civilized world where you punish someone with criminal time for a breach of a term they themselves authored then it does to punish someone with criminal time for a breach of a term they were "forced" to accept.

Preposterous you say?

I totally agree: The existing suggested "corrections" as well as the Law it applies to is even more preposterous then the above because it's only expected to be applied to the "commoner".

However, it would be rather amusing to see all those Politicians who are in breach of Terms Of Service without evening knowing it face prison time.

RAS

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