18 Jul
2001
18 Jul
'01
3:11 p.m.
At 07:23 PM 7/18/01 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote:
How do you picket a virtual store?
DoS? Oh, I forgot, it's a "crime".
Sure, that's harshing on infrastructure. Bad hacker, no coffee. But something like search-engine poisoning is not a crime. Regular ole boycotts are not yet Conspiracies to Interfere With Interstate Trade. Hell, spamming with negative comments is still legal; what if the spam seemed to come from Adobe? What if the agit-spam seemed to come from, say, a near-name like AdobeCo.com? How about a little anonymous stock price rumor mongering? Probably Adobe is resistant to change their course; they prefer to sleep with the likes of the Valenti Mafia... -------- "I'm apoplectic at the sheer chutzpah." ---Stanton McCandlish