{"id":108,"date":"2008-12-01T14:05:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-12-01T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T19:05:09","slug":"violating-web-tos-makes-you-a-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/2008\/violating-web-tos-makes-you-a-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Violating Web TOS Makes You A Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever violated the Terms of Service on a web site?  For that matter, have you ever <em>read<\/em> the Terms of Service for any of the websites you use on a daily basis?  Here&#8217;s the links to a few of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/help\/terms.html\" title=\"GMail Terms of Service\">GMail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/terms.gne\" title=\"Flickr \/ Yahoo&#8217;s Terms of Service\">Flickr<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/t\/terms\" title=\"YouTube&#8217;s Terms of Use\">YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever broken the TOS on any of these sites, you are now a criminal under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/criminal\/cybercrime\/1030_new.html\" title=\"Department of Justice Cybercrime Law\">Computer Fraud &amp; Abuse Act<\/a> according to precedent set by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/article.php?story=20081128005538214\" title=\"Groklaw Brief on U.S. v Lori Drew\">this ruling (Groklaw).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And what is this ruling you ask?  Why, it&#8217;s the ruling agains Lori Drew, the woman who cyberbullied 13-year-old Megan Meier on MySpace.<\/p>\n<p>Did Lori Drew do something awful?  Yes.  Is she a bad person?  Sure looks like it.  But this law was never intended to be enforced in this way.  Surely Terms of Service and End User License Agreement&#8217;s cannot be enforced by the Government &#8211; they are Civil Suit fodder only, right?  Well, not anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Now <strong>{Internet Company}<\/strong>&#8217;s lawyers can <em>write laws.<\/em> The Federal Government is responsible for <em>enforcing them.<\/em>  This is not good, friends.  Not good at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever violated the Terms of Service on a web site? For that matter, have you ever read the Terms of Service for any of the websites you use on a daily basis? Here&#8217;s the links to a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/2008\/violating-web-tos-makes-you-a-criminal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}