Comments on: Utah spyware act challenged http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1218 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1218/comment-page-1#comment-1283 Reader's Write Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:29:11 +0000 #comment-1283 "Why should businesses be allowed to do to individuals what they can use the FBI to prevent individuals from doing to them? " ...excellent point! “Why should businesses be allowed to do to individuals what they can use the FBI to prevent individuals from doing to them? ”

…excellent point!

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1218/comment-page-1#comment-1282 Reader's Write Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:06:07 +0000 #comment-1282 Spy/ad/mal ware is nothing more than corporate "cracking." It should not only be illegal, period, it should suffer punitive damages in the range of millions of dollars per infringement. It says, by way of example, that placing unauthorized control on someone else's computer is okay. If a computer cracker does it to a corporate computer, his computer equipment is confiscated and he's sent to prison along with hefty punitive "damages." Why should businesses be allowed to do to individuals what they can use the FBI to prevent individuals from doing to them? I will rejoice to hear that all the states and their courts finally shut these A-holes down forever. What's good for the consumer is good for business. Spy/ad/mal ware is nothing more than corporate “cracking.” It should not only be illegal, period, it should suffer punitive damages in the range of millions of dollars per infringement. It says, by way of example, that placing unauthorized control on someone else’s computer is okay. If a computer cracker does it to a corporate computer, his computer equipment is confiscated and he’s sent to prison along with hefty punitive “damages.” Why should businesses be allowed to do to individuals what they can use the FBI to prevent individuals from doing to them? I will rejoice to hear that all the states and their courts finally shut these A-holes down forever. What’s good for the consumer is good for business.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1218/comment-page-1#comment-1281 Reader's Write Thu, 15 Apr 2004 02:17:05 +0000 #comment-1281 I can't understand how this can be challenged. To me it's a violation of my privacy to have spyware. It's not legal for another person to put a camera in my house to watch me, why should it be legal for them to put software on my computer to watch me? For that matter, do we even need a law like this? Isn't it already illegal? But I do like the idea of punishing them with incredibly heavy fines. I can’t understand how this can be challenged. To me it’s a violation of my privacy to have spyware. It’s not legal for another person to put a camera in my house to watch me, why should it be legal for them to put software on my computer to watch me? For that matter, do we even need a law like this? Isn’t it already illegal? But I do like the idea of punishing them with incredibly heavy fines.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1218/comment-page-1#comment-1280 Reader's Write Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:54:06 +0000 #comment-1280 I'm an IS manager & I'd like to know... Why is this being challenged? In the last 2 years the amount of time that I have had to spend getting rid of ad-spy ware has gone up 4000%. I'm having to resort to using mozilla as a browser on just amout every system that I manage just to keep the systems up to speed. It's hard enought to keep the "users" from installing everything under the sun on the system & choking up the memory, muchless WEB Advertizements that do it without authorization. In my opinion, you touch my system... you loose a finger... enought said.. I’m an IS manager & I’d like to know… Why is this being challenged? In the last 2 years the amount of time that I have had to spend getting rid of ad-spy ware has gone up 4000%. I’m having to resort to using mozilla as a browser on just amout every system that I manage just to keep the systems up to speed.

It’s hard enought to keep the “users” from installing everything under the sun on the system & choking up the memory, muchless WEB Advertizements that do it without authorization.

In my opinion, you touch my system…

you loose a finger…

enought said..

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1218/comment-page-1#comment-1279 Reader's Write Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:12:02 +0000 #comment-1279 It's about time!!! It’s about time!!!

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