{"id":9658,"date":"2013-03-30T16:07:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T21:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9658"},"modified":"2013-03-30T16:07:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T21:07:33","slug":"the-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act-is-a-failed-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9658","title":{"rendered":"The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Is a Failed Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Over the years, legislatures and the courts progressively have treated the unauthorized movement of data bits over someone else\u2019s chattel into a \u201ctrespass\u201d of that chattel\u2013an activity I\u2019ll call \u201conline trespass to chattels.\u201d For example, many states have enacted computer crime laws that restrict unauthorized use of Internet and telecommunications equipment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ericgoldman\/2013\/03\/28\/the-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act-is-a-failed-experiment\/\">The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Is a Failed Experiment &#8211; Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a result, these proposed changes will end the adverse consequences from the online trespass to chattels experiment while letting chattel owners prevent socially disadvantageous online usage of their chattels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, legislatures and the courts progressively have treated the unauthorized movement of data bits over someone else\u2019s chattel into a \u201ctrespass\u201d of that chattel\u2013an activity I\u2019ll call \u201conline trespass to chattels.\u201d For example, many states have enacted computer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1091],"tags":[1089,733],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-cfaa","tag-cyberwar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9666,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions\/9666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}