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DOJ: Violating a website's TOS should be a crime


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#1 nodle

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Posted 15 November 2011 - 03:15 PM

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In a statement obtained by CNET that's scheduled to be delivered tomorrow, the Justice Department argues that it must be able to prosecute violations of Web sites' often-ignored, always-unintelligible "terms of service" policies.

The law must allow "prosecutions based upon a violation of terms of service or similar contractual agreement with an employer or provider," Richard Downing, the Justice Department's deputy computer crime chief, will tell the U.S. Congress tomorrow.

http://news.cnet.com...-to-be-a-crime/

#2 WayneKerr

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Posted 15 November 2011 - 08:52 PM

Wha?  Violating a contract is a civil matter, not criminal matter.




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