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Jim
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Jul 31, 2015 06:26PM

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- The original wording of the DMCA outlawed all computers on private networks since that masked their actual IP address.
- Copyright is not clear across media. The film industry is particularly bad in this regard as several entrepreneurs found out when they tried to allow people to stream movies they owned to their own personal devices. One judge said the controlling documents meant nothing since they were such a mess. Still, the industry kept a couple of startups in court for years until the big boys entered the fray.
- A district judge threw out a case against a guy that was stealing emails from an intermediary server. The only laws in place to charge him were the wiretapping laws. The judge said that since a relay server held the emails for an indeterminate amount of time, the communication wasn't live & so didn't fall under the wiretapping laws. I believe she was later overruled, but it seemed to me the letter of the law gutted the intent.
- Back to drones: The US gov't has decided they have no laws to charge a guy with who mounted a pistol on a drone & fired it.
http://www.insideedition.com/headline...
Anyway, these are just a few of the examples I know of off the top of my head & late (for me) at night. I'm sure there are a lot of others out there. What can we do about this? I think the problem is going to get worse.