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by nfriedly 3680 days ago
Yea.. but a site on the internet is more akin to a store than someone's home. It's completely normal to walk into someone's store.
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An ftp server is clearly more akin to a spooky abandoned building.
A more accurate analogy for an FTP server is a machine that sends you letters on demand.

It's like Shafer wrote a letter to their office asking for their list of patients, and lo and behold, they've sent him back an envelope containing that list.

Or a private lending library that is technically open to the public, but no one ever goes there, because all the books are about dental drills.
I think that's a gopher server
Yea. This would be a felony that a 4 year old child, your tech ignorant grandmother, and any other random Facebook user could commit by clicking on a link.
I'm not justifying the law I consider it ridiculous but I'm pretty sure that is how it is written.