Submitted via IRC for FatPhil
Good news out of the Ninth Circuit: the federal court of appeals heeded EFF's advice and rejected an attempt by Oracle to hold a company criminally liable for accessing Oracle's website in a manner it didn't like. The court ruled back in 2012 that merely violating a website's terms of use is not a crime under the federal computer crime statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. But some companies, like Oracle, turned to state computer crime statutes—in this case, California and Nevada—to enforce their computer use preferences.
This decision shores up the good precedent from 2012 and makes clear—if it wasn't clear already—that violating a corporate computer use policy is not a crime.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday January 12 2018, @01:59AM (3 children)
Whew! And here I thought that I might be legally liable for not, according to some, abiding by the submission guidelines for submissions to SoylentNews! But now I see that it is alright to submit things that the editors don't like, things like fair and balanced stories, news for nerds, and counter-fascist propaganda. So, Hey!! Eds!!! You can select some of my submissions now! It's legal!!!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 12 2018, @04:17AM (1 child)
> things like fair and balanced stories
Red alert! Red alert! aristarchus has turned Fox! I repeat, aristarchus has turned Fox!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday January 12 2018, @05:19AM
Not turned, has always been! Surely you have read Aesop's tales? Of course, more of the coyote in North America. Or B'rer Bugs Bunny. Are you suggesting that Fox News has been pulling our leg the whole time? And that now the Trumpster and the Faux News are in a death spiral of tautological self-confirmation, which can only end, as it does with the Gooney Bird (which flies in tighter and tighter circles), with their flying up their own arses? Seems legit! Not saying it was aliens, but, lizard people?
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Friday January 12 2018, @03:12PM
Ironically, the quote at the bottom of the page enigmatically reads "The best defense against logic is ignorance."