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No. TOS is not mutually binding agreement. You can't invite people to your garage sales and tell people that by looking at the items they've made a final sale a
by brilliantcode 10y ago
No. TOS is not mutually binding agreement. You can't invite people to your garage sales and tell people that by looking at the items they've made a final sale automatically without their consent.
- pdabbadabba 10y agoNot true (in the U.S.). Just ask Aaron Swartz. The fact that it does (or, at least, has been interpreted to) criminalize TOS violations is one of the must important flaws in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/rebooting-computer-crime-law-part-1-no-prison-time-for-violating-terms-of-service https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/rebooting-computer-cri...
- brilliantcode 10y agoAaron Swartz was a weird one. Some zealous IT guy exaggerated it as if national security data were being scraped when in fact most were just shoddy research papers written at 1 AM before the due date. All people that landed a hand in this man's death should be charged with manslaughter. Truly a shame and how draconian laws end up killing the innocent in the United States.