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Great, so now if I put a notice that no government employees are allowed to use my Web site, and they do anyway, I can sue them? :)
by tsaoutourpants 13y ago
Great, so now if I put a notice that no government employees are allowed to use my Web site, and they do anyway, I can sue them? :)
- jetti 13y agoThis reminds me of all of the notices about the quoted the CFAA and amendments Bill Clinton signed into law in '96 that people had as txt files on their hard drives when using Soulseek. It said just that, if you are a government employee you are barred from accessing my files per the CFAA. I never thought it would actually hold water, but it seems it potentially could.
- qnr 13y agoMy first thought when reading the article was to prohibit RIAA and MPAA from visiting torrent trackers etc. You can even preemptively send them a C&D letter in pretty legalese.
- gwu78 13y agoIf these servers used IP block lists and sent cease and desist letters to an organization on the list that they believed bypassed the restrictions and accessed the server anyway (how would they prove that?), and it turns out there is no evidence of contributing to copyright infringement, then would the server owners have a claim under the CFAA? The interpretation of the CFAA in this Order only applies to the facts of the 3Taps case, but assuming this case actually went to trial and in its decision the Court parroted what it has said already regarding the validity of CL's CFAA claims, then it one could at least argue that _any_ computer owner should be entitled to enjoy the protections of the CFAA against unauthorized access to that computer, in order to protect all information that through such access can be obtained. I hope others besides you and I will give this idea some more thought.