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If we can use trust law as our starting point (trust = shared title to property), then we see that an Amazon/Kindle account is just a trust between you, amazon,
by anonbanker 12y ago
If we can use trust law as our starting point (trust = shared title to property), then we see that an Amazon/Kindle account is just a trust between you, amazon, and this other party. The only one investing money in the trust is this third party.
If you delete the account, you have two of the three parties' agreements documented. You need all three, in order to be able to claim that nobody's rights are being infringed. This can be done by making a good faith effort to notice the third party via multiple forms of communication. Even if they don't get to the party, you need to at least make the attempt. Send a first notice, wait ten days, if no response, send a second notice. If no response, consider that your acquiescence, and delete the account.
- coldpie 12y agoYeah, trying to contact the user seems like a reasonable thing to do. If you've got her name, you can probably dig up an email or social media account.
- jellicle 12y agoIt's not possible to contact the third party without logging into "their" account, which is a crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The act of getting that contact info from someone else's account is precisely what the CFAA exists to illegalize.
- Roedou 12y agoI assumed there was a law somewhere I'd be breaking; thanks for letting me know what it is.
- anonbanker 12y agonot so fast[1]. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8522250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8522250
- anonbanker 12y agoby using your email address, they have entered you into this trust with them. As such, you have a claim to ownership of the account. The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act only covers accounts that do not belong to you, and being this one partially does, you are within your rights to use the account to contact the other owners.
- jellicle 12y agoThat's a pretty novel legal argument, that you acquire ownership of someone else's computer account - that you have entered into a legal contract with someone who isn't aware you exist - merely because they typoed their email address. It is so novel, in fact, that it doesn't exist. Don't make up bullshit and write it in legal threads. You might deceive someone into thinking your bullshit is accurate.
- anonbanker 12y agoI look forward to your evidence that interest in a contract does not connote informal equity.