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by tgbrter 4050 days ago
Is it possible that the "cyber" laws are designed to be effective towards individuals.
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But corporations are individuals! Could two wrongs make a right?
So put the corporation in jail; take its personal items and lock them away, don't allow any outside communications except through visits, no access to bank accounts, etc.

On a more serious note, what happens to the author[ing company] of the software used to inject ads? http://www.komodia.com/about

Or, direct 100% of net profits to the state, in order to pay the prisoner's fines. The articles of incorporation should be sufficient to imprison.

Think this insane? Look up in rem jurisdiction. You'll see cool lawsuits such as "UNITED STATES V. $50,000 IN CASH". I'd consider that precedent.

Corporations are not people. They are arrays of people.

Specifically, they are C-style arrays of people.

In C, if you try to qualify (const or volatile) an array, it's actually the element-type that gets qualified.

(The straight syntax doesn't support it at all; the above applies if you try to create an typedef for the array type and then use it as a declaration specifier, side by side with qualifiers.)

In the same way that qualifiers on C arrays slide down to the elements, certain attributes, including responsibilities, have to shift from corporations to the member individuals.