DamianTV
08-16-2013, 05:29 PM
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/prison-for-copy-and-paste/
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You may have heard about this — it’s crazy. We’ve entered an age where copying-and-pasting a link can land you in jail.
Barrett Brown, a journalist who often reported on the activities of Anonymous, has been locked up for almost a year for just that. Barrett copy-and-pasted a link from one chatroom to another to share with his peers during his research on the activities of private intelligence firm, Stratfor. The link contained data which had been hacked but was already publicly available information at that point.
Now he’s facing 105 years in prison.
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(more at link)
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/barrettbrown_jpg_400x0_q85.jpg
You may have heard about this — it’s crazy. We’ve entered an age where copying-and-pasting a link can land you in jail.
Barrett Brown, a journalist who often reported on the activities of Anonymous, has been locked up for almost a year for just that. Barrett copy-and-pasted a link from one chatroom to another to share with his peers during his research on the activities of private intelligence firm, Stratfor. The link contained data which had been hacked but was already publicly available information at that point.
Now he’s facing 105 years in prison.
...
(more at link)