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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: White Israelite on August 24, 2013, 12:16:37 PM

Title: Changing your IP address or using a proxy could now be against the law
Post by: White Israelite on August 24, 2013, 12:16:37 PM

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130820/12083824256/unfortunate-ruling-says-changing-your-ip-address-can-be-unauthorized-access-to-public-website.shtml

Does that mean if CNN bans you for posting on disqus and you come back your in violation of the law?

Title: Re: Changing your IP address or using a proxy could now be against the law
Post by: Shlomo on August 25, 2013, 12:26:48 AM

Wow! That is unbelievable. Almost everyone's IP address changes all the time unless they pay extra.

Title: Re: Changing your IP address or using a proxy could now be against the law
Post by: angryChineseKahanist on August 26, 2013, 03:25:24 PM

How would they enforce this?
We ran out of IPs over 15 years ago.
Do we have 6 billion IP addresses?