Comments on: Judge on privacy: Computer code trumps the law

Technology has outpaced legal system's ability to regulate its use in issues of privacy and fair use rights, says Australian High Court judge.

[Len Bullard]

Vigilantes Disunite

A world in which code is law over the decisions of the body elected to represent the people is a world that will give rise to vigilante code as the means of justice.

Means get meaner.

[Renegade Knight]

Utter Bull

While code can sneak around the law, the law sets the framework for which software and more importantly the people who write it must operate within.

If the law demands privacy then so be it.

[silenzisgolden]

Utter Bull is Utter Bull

Renegade Knight, you're an idiot. Justice Michael Kirby IS one of those top legal minds in the world. If he says there's a problem, then you can bet your ass there's a problem.

[lampietheclown]

Really? Lets see...

Sony puts rootkits on hundreds of thousands of computers. That's a felony. Did anybody go to jail?
Sony lied and said there was no rootkit. then they said it did no harm. Then they said it didn't phone home. Then they said the DMCA gave them the power to put rootkits that do harm and phone home on your computer, even if you click NO on the EULA. Then they said they had posted a removal tool. Then the removal tool was found to install more evil code! instead of removing anything. Anyone get charged with a criminal act? No. Sony was hit with a few nuisance class actions, and gave everyone a free CD.

Where's your Law?

Just last month it was found that Sears KMart had duped many people into downloading software that tracks their computers everywhere it goes on the internet, including your banking site, your e-mail, etc. No class actions that I've heard, but they did have to change the wording of the EULA that nobody reads.

Where is your law?

Utter Bull?
That's udder, and if it has one, it's no bull!

Lampie The Clown

[ggrs34]

errr nice but

er the law is there, but the enforcement isn't

[MichaGato]

What else is new?

There is a problem and the problem is legal fiction gets to be more protected than real persons... Code, Sony, online vigilantism are just pieces of the emerging corporate state. If you ever played Syndicate you'll get the picture, only there'll be no graphic violence, only muffled victims, i.e., you & me, the underdogs. Welcome to the american nightmare!