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My sense is that this is incorrect. I think the law would prohibit breaking into people's computers, not circumventing internet censorship. By circumventing i
by jstanley 5y ago
My sense is that this is incorrect.
I think the law would prohibit breaking into people's computers, not circumventing internet censorship.
By circumventing internet censorship you're accessing information that its owner wants you to be able to access. You're not breaking into their computer.
- madaxe_again 5y agoUnfortunately, no. Consider prosecutions of users in the U.K. for accessing TPB via a VPN - TPB didn’t prohibit access, the govt did - but using any computer to access any information on any other computer which you are not authorised to access for any reason is an offence.
- neuroma 5y agoLink? Can't find any evidence that people have been prosecuted in UK for using VPN for TPB.
- nix23 5y agoNow your are mixing copyright problems with accessing public-data...not really honest of you. And it was not the Goverment who went against the users but Atari, Codemasters, TopWare Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland and the "Ministy of Sound"...for COPYRIGHT violations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_the_United_Kin...