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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: Argo on December 01, 2008, 03:25:54 AM
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Experts Say MySpace Suicide Indictment Sets 'Scary' Legal Precedent (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/myspace-indictm.html)
"This is a novel and extreme reading of what [the law] prohibits," says Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "To say that you're violating a criminal law by registering to speak under a false name is highly problematic. It's probably an unconstitutional reading of the statute."
"Theoretically, it applies to any use of a service in violation of the terms of service," says EFF's Granick, who says the impact of the Drew prosecution could be far-reaching. By way of example, Granick notes that some terms-of-use contracts prohibit users from making negative comments about the company. "If you write on a blog something disparaging about that company, are you in violation of criminal law?" Other contracts have prohibited visitors to a website from linking to that site.
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Fortunately for the users of Amiga.org and other forums, no assistant district attorney is going to make a name for themselves trying users who complain about the quality of Amiga, Inc.'s management and Elbox's customer support. :-P
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@Trev
Is Elbox's customer service bad. I have always found them to be helpfull. Delivering all the products they have announced is another matter.
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In my experience, their presales support is fine. After you give them money, however, they're quite reticent. My last support query went unanswered.