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>> The heart of this is the difference between legal authorization vs technical authorization.

We must not confuse legal authorization (felony for violation) with private or contractual agreements.

Any law that allows private entities to define what actions constitute a felony is bad, and hopefully unconstitutional.

Technical access measures are somewhat like physical locks. Terms of use are more similar to contracts. IANAL so my analogies my be crap.




This is a very good point and what people often confuse.

There is a crime of breaking and entering - and thats well defined.

Then there are permissions of: "you can be in my house as long as you dont use the bathrolm and only wear pink socks" - if a person were to wear green socks, you can icik them out, but it does not suddenly become a home invasion




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