User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace 931
Recently a user, Lori Drew, was charged with a felony for the heinous crime of pretending to be someone else on the Internet. Using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Lori was charged for signing up for MySpace using a fake name. "The access to MySpace was unauthorized because using a fake name violated the terms of service. The information from a "protected computer" was the profiles of other MySpace users. If this is found to be a valid interpretation of the law, it's really quite frightening. If you violate the Terms of Service of a website, you can be charged with hacking. That's an astounding concept. Does this mean that everyone who uses Bugmenot could be prosecuted? Also, this isn't a minor crime, it's a felony punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment per count. In Drew's case she was charged with three counts for accessing MySpace on three different occasions."
I'm George Bush (Score:5, Funny)
The Fake Username: (Score:1, Funny)
Hugh G. Rection
Cool (Score:2, Funny)
I'm in a country somewhere in Asia and it's "surprising" to see so many blondes in my city when you go look at those sites
Hacking? (Score:1, Funny)
OMG I just hacked slashdot, bow before my amazing hacking skillz
You know what this means? (Score:2, Funny)
I'll only visit websites where I can invoke the Anonymous Coward!
Re:Listen up (Score:5, Funny)
What about email? (Score:3, Funny)
Guess that makes me a felon? Or am I only a felon if I get caught?
Example: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who uses their real name? (Score:2, Funny)
If we are no longer allowed to use pseudonyms on the Internet without getting sued, I'm getting my name legally changed to "Anonymous Coward."
Re:What the.... (Score:5, Funny)
You appear to be using an alias, would like to come with us for a little while. -TLA(Three Letter Agency)
Re:Well, drive a girl to suicide... (Score:5, Funny)
Drive a girl to commit suicide, and get prosecuted for loggin in under a fake name...
Yeah, what's the deal with that? That's like "Orchestrate the St. Valentine's Massacre, and get prosecuted for tax evasion." Just so friggin' wrong....
Sincerely,
A. Capone
Re:What the.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What about email? (Score:2, Funny)
Guess that makes me a felon? Or am I only a felon if I get caught?
Only if Bill kills himself as a result of the flood of spam to his inbox. Although, that will never happen since spam was eradicated in 2006.. right, Bill?
Re:What the.... (Score:1, Funny)
Depends. Is that MY snicker's bar, or someone else's?
Re:What the.... (Score:4, Funny)
or crank calls you as "I P Freely".
Is that some sort of net neutrality joke?
Re:What the.... (Score:1, Funny)
This was rated informative?
Besides the fact that the original poster was making an example of the types of terms a web site could set, what's the link to tomorrow's or next week's terms of service? There's nothing to stop a site from changing terms whenever they want. They could even change them per user, so you and I don't see the same terms.
By the way, it's funny that the file name in "http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.mspx" still adheres to the old 8.4 FAT file system name limits.
Re:What the.... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Al Capone... (Score:4, Funny)
a crime that 95% of law abiding people don't commit.
IANAL, but I think you're off by about 5% here.