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Helixius |
User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name on MySpace |
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Recently a user, Lori Drew, was charged with a felony for the heinous crime of pretending to be someone else on the Internet. Using
the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Lori was charged for signing up for MySpace using a fake name. "The access to MySpace was unauthorized because using
a fake name violated the terms of service. The information from a "protected computer" was the profiles of other MySpace users. If this is found to
be a valid interpretation of the law, it's really quite frightening. If you violate the Terms of Service of a website, you can be charged with hacking.
That's an astounding concept. Does this mean that everyone who uses Bugmenot could be prosecuted? Also, this isn't a minor crime, it's a felony
punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment per count. In Drew's case she was charged with three counts for accessing MySpace on three different
occasions."
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Lambrini Queen |
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was she pretending to be someone else to cause mischief??
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Helixius |
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No idea, really. What's really important about this story, though, is that if they actually decide to convict her over this, then that means breaking
any website's ToS could allow the website to say you're hacking.
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Lambrini Queen |
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It just seems so wrong when there's so much fraud etc going on that they're starting at the small end of the problem, if indeed she didn't actually
do any harm
Can they prosecute me for being a lambrini queen? or mark for being a captain etc? It just seems daft! ![]() ![]()
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Ocean Dreamer |
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I am a captain...lol
This is the most ridiculous thing i have ever ever heard. |
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Pamplemousse Jus |
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I have a Myspace account with the name "Algonquin Roundtable" and used to have "Mata Hari" as my name ... I changed it every few months.
Crazy.
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Misty Nichole |
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Exactly.
Is anyone on the internet who they say they are? No many.
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Soapflower |
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Helixius wrote: The Lori Drew case is the one where she, an adult neighbor of a young girl, pretended to be a boy who was interested in this girl. She then harrassed the child until she couldn't take it anymore. The girl should have went to her parents with it but instead she went into her closet and hung herself. |
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Pamplemousse Jus |
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I don't think the crime was so much pretending to be someone else, but harassing a teenage girl.
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Soapflower |
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Pamplemousse Jus wrote: Exactly right |
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DDRGSD |
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That sounds about right
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still
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hurleysgirl |
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That's what I was going to say Rachael. It was a crime they could punish this woman with for harassing the girl which led to her death.
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Dougie G2 |
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Thats so sad, hate stories like this.
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I`m just a soul whose intentions are good, Oh please don`t let me be misunderstood. |
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Ocean Dreamer |
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Agree with Rach. I think they are getting sidetracked from the real reason here.
"Algonquin Roundtable" uh Rach.........what the Hell???? |
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DDRGSD |
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I made a reservation in the Name of Dick Crotchburn once.
Hope they don't come after me
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still
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Pamplemousse Jus |
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The Algonquin Round Table was a celebrated group of New York City writers, critics, actors and wits. Gathering initially as part of a practical joke, members
of "The Vicious Circle," as they dubbed themselves, gathered for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until roughly 1929. At these
luncheons they engaged in wisecracks, wordplay and witticisms that, through the newspaper columns of Round Table members, were disseminated across the country.
Daily association with each other both at the luncheons and outside of them inspired members of the Circle to collaborate creatively. The entire group worked together successfully only once, however, to create a revue called No Sirree! which helped launch a Hollywood career for Round Tabler Robert Benchley. In its ten years of association, the Round Table and a number of its members acquired national reputations both for their contributions to literature and for their sparkling wit. Although some of their contemporaries, and later in life even some of its members, disparaged the group, its reputation has endured long after its dissolution. Charter members of the Round Table included: Franklin Pierce Adams, columnist Robert Benchley, humorist and actor Heywood Broun, columnist and sportswriter (married to Ruth Hale) Marc Connelly, playwright George S. Kaufman, playwright and director Dorothy Parker, critic, poet, short-story writer, and screenwriter Harold Ross, The New Yorker editor Robert E. Sherwood, author and playwright John Peter Toohey, publicist Alexander Woollcott, critic and journalist Membership was not official or fixed so many others moved in and out of the Circle. Some of these included: Tallulah Bankhead, actress Edna Ferber, author and playwright Jane Grant, journalist and feminist (married to Ross) Ruth Hale, journalist and feminist Beatrice Kaufman, editor and playwright (married to George S. Kaufman) Harpo Marx, comedian and actor Neysa McMein, magazine illustrator Donald Ogden Stewart, playwright and screenwriter Deems Taylor, composer
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lasher |
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but, but,,,what happens when staff break the tos themselves
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Ocean Dreamer |
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lol lol
ohhh, now i see.......ahem.... Love that name Lasher. I would've kept it. lol |
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Pamplemousse Jus |
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Misty Nichole |
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The Lori Drew case is the one where she, an adult neighbor of a young girl, pretended to be a boy who was interested in this girl. She then harrassed the child until she couldn't take it anymore. The girl should have went to her parents with it but instead she went into her closet and hung herself. omg...I didn't realize that was the case they were talking about...that was horrible and so sad. That lady was sick, but it was about so much more than pretending to be someone else on the internet.... she stalked and harassed that poor child till she took her own life...that is unconscionable Believe it or not my name isn't really Misty!
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Pamplemousse Jus |
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You're kidding! I feel so lied to!
(I know your real name ... muhahahaha!)
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