On Sunday, February 06, 2005 5:41 AM, wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org <> wrote:
--- "Karl A. Krueger" kkrueger@whoi.edu wrote:
She's been banned from Wikipedia according to policies imposed by the legal owners of Wikipedia's servers. This means that she does not have permission to use those servers. Doing so might actually be a criminal offense, depending on the laws in her jurisdiction.
Anybody know if there is some case law in the U.S. about banned people from chat rooms / usenet? I think I remember something about that.
Not entirely sure about US law, but UK law (which the ISP in this case, being British, would be more interested in) includes the Computer Misuse Act 1990 [1], which makes a criminal act of "any act which causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of any computer" which results in impairing "reliability of any such data". If you suggest that to BT, they will quite possibly pay attention.
-- mav
[1] - http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/Ukpga_19900018_en_1.htm
Yours,