Mavrick wrote:
>
> On 11/1/05, *Mario Lombardo* <mario@alienscience.com
> <mailto:mario@alienscience.com>> wrote:
>
> With as many people affected by this, why is prison
> time such a far-fetched idea?
>
> Unless Sony can be shown to have caused irrepairable harm (and
> elevated blood pressure and broken monitors due to errant flying
> objects *do not* count) this will remain a civil matter and nothing
> but monetary gains/losses will occur.
>
> Cheers, Mav
Seems to me that it's up to a state (California, for example)
or the feds to criminalize the behavior. I've already deleted
the prior post from one of y'all re: Calif. statutes on spyware.
Can't remember what it said. Check it to see whether it's
strickly a civil matter or a criminal one.
Dave
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