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> Worst case it'll get taken down, Eeh, worst case scenario you'll get sued as Microsoft will have no problem with handing over everything they have from your
by embedding-shape 29d ago
> Worst case it'll get taken down,
Eeh, worst case scenario you'll get sued as Microsoft will have no problem with handing over everything they have from your Windows installation information, GitHub accounts, NPM authentication and everything else they own today if the courts tell them to.
You can't just commit crimes on the open internet without really hiding IPs and what not, and expect that to not come back to haunt you eventually. Kind of poor form to suggest otherwise too.
- lukan 29d ago"You can't just commit crimes on the open internet " Who said it is a crime, are you a lawyer?
- embedding-shape 29d agoAllegedly commit potential crimes* I'm not saying yay/nay if this is a crime or not, but if you think it might be, and you create a new account on GitHub to "be anonymous", you're not taking opsec seriously enough for something you believe might be a crime. By the way, generally judges or juries would be the ones to decide if something was illegal or not, it's not the lawyers who decide this, in any country I'm familiar with.
- fennecfoxy 29d agoTbf "is it a crime" is hard for even a single lawyer to answer because it depends on: who you are, your skin colour, how rich you are, your sex, whether it's a white collar crime or not, did you commit the crime on behalf of a corpo, etc. But we like to pretend that the justice system delivers justice evenhandedly I suppose.
- supernikita 29d agoNo it does not. The law defines what a crime is. That you are bummed out about how it is applied, does not change the question, whether it is a crime. One thing is the definition of what constitutes a crime/felony/misdemeanor, another thing is the application and the punishment meted out.
- d1sxeyes 29d agoThat's not quite the case in common law countries. In countries like the UK and the US, the interpretation of the law as written is ultimately decided by the court, meaning that the definition of what constitutes a crime/felony/misdemeanor is subjective. The more courts that attempt to interpret that specific law, the more 'jurisprudence' builds up, meaning that the interpretation applied in a previous decision can certainly have an impact on a future decision.
- LastTrain 28d agoIf there are predictable patterns w/r to the implementation that is something a good lawyer would tell you, albeit in couched terms.
- wombatpm 29d agoPlease note: This is America where potential civil immigration charges can result in summary execution because poorly-trained wannabe-cop racists with guns make needless escalations. If law enforcement thinks it’s a crime, it’s a crime until the courts say otherwise.
- mitxela 28d ago99% of American law enforcement does not care about a piano disc encoder.
- jacquesmouton 28d agoI am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure there is a crime somewhere there.
- deaux 29d ago> You can't just commit crimes on the open internet without really hiding IPs and what not, and expect that to not come back to haunt you eventually. Not sure what you're talking about, the current AI boom is entirely based on committing crimes on the open internet without really hiding IPs and what not. So is much of big tech in general.
- embedding-shape 29d agoKeyword being "you". "They" can commit crimes, because they're big tech companies who give gifts to the right people. But "you" are not "they".
- deaux 26d agoAny reasonable person would interpret the original comment as the "generic you" rather than the "second person you", but nice save.