2016/12/22 13:08:27
bitflipper
If you live in the US and you use a computer or a smartphone, odds are that you are a felon.
 
Specifically, you are in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. All you have to do to qualify is to violate any of the terms and conditions contained in those dozens of software license agreements you've routinely clicked through.
 
If, for example, you are 17 years old and want to read Seventeen Magazine, you'll need to check a box saying you're over 18. And in so doing, become a felon by lying in defiance of the site's terms. Want to hire a lawyer to sue Netflix? Think again, as doing so would make you a felon by violating the EULA that forbids suing them. Love Safari on your iPad and want to install Safari for Windows on your Windows machine? Felon!
 
Check out the documentary "Killswitch". It's on Netflix. Yes, it's a rehash of mostly old news, but when you see it all summarized like this it's still an eye-opener.
 
P.S. Please don't make this thread political. Sure, there are some politicians among the cast of villains, but for the most part they are merely bit players. I don't want to violate the T.O.S., especially now that I know it can get you 35 years in prison.
2016/12/22 13:12:42
bitflipper

2016/12/22 13:19:23
drewfx1
bitflipper
If, for example, you are 17 years old and...
 
Love Safari on your iPad and...




Well there's two examples that are (criminally) inapplicable to drewfx1.  
2016/12/22 13:21:29
Slugbaby
Last year a police officer stopped me for jaywalking as I crossed a car-less street.
As I told him, there are some laws that are so irrelevant that I'm happy to be on the "wrong side."  It's good to feel like a "bad boy" once in a while.  I was starting to feel like a grownup!
 
As long as US Customs doesn't decide to address EULA contracts as I'm passing through... 
2016/12/22 14:27:57
bayoubill
 
it's by design 
 
2016/12/22 14:29:00
bapu
Daryk likes felines.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Monkeys too.
2016/12/22 14:31:11
bapu
I'm a 17 year old trapped in a 64 year old body. Fellini I am. 
2016/12/22 14:35:59
batsbrew
i say, bring it on.
i'm ready.
 
2016/12/22 14:45:44
jamesg1213
Slugbaby
Last year a police officer stopped me for jaywalking




 
That's always seemed slightly unreal to me, a really impractical 'offence' to police.
2016/12/22 14:48:12
bapu
jamesg1213
Slugbaby
Last year a police officer stopped me for jaywalking




 
That's always seemed slightly unreal to me, a really impractical 'offence' to police.


You should only get a citation if you're hit by a vehicle. JMO.
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