<p>There is a Senator introducing a bill to return TOS violations back to the realm of contract law and away criminal law. It's being call Aaron's Law.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 19, 2013 6:11 PM, "Jay Lozier" <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 01/19/2013 04:57 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:<br>
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On 01/12/2013 10:54 PM, Tim Watts wrote:<br>
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I don't contend that the prosecutor could have / should have foreseen<br>
this outcome. What sickens me is the enormous talent we've lost because<br>
of a prosecutor with no sense of proportion. Even if Mr. Swartz hadn't<br>
killed himself would it really have been necessary to waste such a<br>
talent with a 35 year sentence for a single misguided prank? Even<br>
JSTOR, the victim, declined to press charges for his crime and asked the<br>
feds to drop it. The federal prosecutor's name is Carmen Ortiz if<br>
anyone's interested.<br>
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Since I learned of this it has been something that I have continued to<br>
think about.<br>
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Looking at the application of the CFAA-1986 over the years, there seems<br>
to be a trend of lesser severity crimes being met with harsher and<br>
harsher sentences. It really is insane. You often get less time for<br>
the careless operation of a motor vehicle that leads to a loss of life<br>
than you could for walking into an unlocked closet, hooking up a network<br>
connection and sucking bits across a network?<br>
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I mean, seriously, I don't care what the information is---how is it that<br>
it could possibly warrant such harsh penalties? How is that not "cruel<br>
and unusual" punishment?<br>
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What a damned shame.<br>
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--- Mike<br>
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