[apg]

With the right case, I don't see how this would withstand Supreme Court review. The Ninth Circuit doesn't seem to like it (Drew/Duval). My guess is the the SCOTUS wouldn't approve of private parties drafting their own criminal laws.

[kefka]

Do you want to run foul on multiple felonies (1 per day per ToS violation) along with dozens of other "felonies" that you undoubtedly commit without knowledge.....

Just so you can petition the Supreme Court to take your case, knowing that they can just sit back instead and do nothing?

Wasn't there this Aaron kid that got hit by that very tactic? Hmm. He didn't take the "decades in prison" so well, did he?

[mpyne]

> He didn't take the "decades in prison" so well, did he?

So the example you take from what happened to Aaron Swartz is to apply yet more propaganda from the other side, instead of facts?

It's not even something you have to mislead about; 2-3 years in prison as an upper-end estimate is bad enough to make your point without being evasive, and even the ~6 months upper limit that the prosecution had offered in a plea bargain is said to be serious enough to make your point.

You could even mention that Aaron would have been a "felon" should he have been convicted or plea guilty on those charges and you'd have been accurate.

And yet you choose the only outcome that wasn't actually possible to push your point forward...

[rayiner]

Yes, because I try to evade a major defense contractor's attempts to kick me off their network dozens of times a day.

[diminoten]

Aaron was sick, don't pretend like anyone under that kind of pressure would simply kill themselves.