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If 1/6 of Americans are potential repeat federal felons based on just one activity, I find it highly dubious that the other 5/6 can't be as well in the other hu

If 1/6 of Americans are potential repeat federal felons based on just one activity, I find it highly dubious that the other 5/6 can't be as well in the other hundreds of activities we undertake each day. Using your parents' Netflix/ Disney+/ etc password can technically be prosecuted under CFAA[1], for example. That's probably another 1/6 at least. Now it's 1/3 of the country. [1]: https://decider.com/2022/01/04/is-it-federal-crime-to-share-netflix-password/ https://decider.com/2022/01/04/is-it-federal-crime-to-share-... > In 2016, the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that sharing online passwords is a crime prosecutable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

gruez 1y ago
Wikipedia on the case in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nosal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nosal >A few months after leaving Korn/Ferry, Nosal solicited three Korn/Ferry employees to help him start a competing executive search business. Before leaving the company, the employees downloaded a large volume of "highly confidential and proprietary" data from Korn/Ferry's computers, including source lists, names, and contact information for executives. Extending that ruling to netflix password sharing is a stretch. Moreover you can't say "I can think of one activity that many americans do is a felony", and then apply induction on it to claim that the other activities americans due surely contain felonies. >That's probably another 1/6 at least. Now it's 1/3 of the country. That's only true if you assume the population of weed smoker and netfilx watchers don't intersect, which is... doubtful.
- bryanrasmussen 1y ago
  gosh if only anyone knew who this guy was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz at any rate possession of Marijuana or other controlled substances does not mean that one uses them, so lots of people are theoretically in possession because they give someone a ride that has drugs with them.
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gruez 1y ago

Wikipedia on the case in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nosal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Nosal >A few months after leaving Korn/Ferry, Nosal solicited three Korn/Ferry employees to help him start a competing executive search business. Before leaving the company, the employees downloaded a large volume of "highly confidential and proprietary" data from Korn/Ferry's computers, including source lists, names, and contact information for executives. Extending that ruling to netflix password sharing is a stretch. Moreover you can't say "I can think of one activity that many americans do is a felony", and then apply induction on it to claim that the other activities americans due surely contain felonies. >That's probably another 1/6 at least. Now it's 1/3 of the country. That's only true if you assume the population of weed smoker and netfilx watchers don't intersect, which is... doubtful.

bryanrasmussen 1y ago
gosh if only anyone knew who this guy was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz at any rate possession of Marijuana or other controlled substances does not mean that one uses them, so lots of people are theoretically in possession because they give someone a ride that has drugs with them.

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