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Can I ask a company for money in exchange for info on a bug
Suppose one found information about a large organisations software, for example Apple Pay, about their payment system that could cause very bad legal trouble for them. This could be related to to the ...
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Is there a legal distinction between “phishing” and “simulated phishing”?
Phishing emails are illegal under laws such as the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005.
Many companies are becoming increasingly aggressive with sending “simulated phishing” emails to their employees. Employees ...
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Is it legal to use random images from the Internet in my personal study notes? [duplicate]
It's the images of objects, the images are helping learn new vocabulary. I don't know if they're under copyright. I mean if I get them from some website.
I want to use them only in my personal notes ...
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How Can This Book Published in 2005 be in the Public Domain?
According to Internet Archive, the Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (Divine Mercy in My Soul) published by Marian Press, Stockbridge, MA in 2005, is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
St. Faustina died in ...
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Can the federal government prohibit the publication of software it does not like?
There's a bill scheduled to pass the House today that imposes a $5,000 fine every time someone updates TikTok from a web service you provide. (It's not clear to me whether this only applies if you are ...
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Is it permissible for online forums to not delete possibly illegal user content unless ordered by a court?
In the United States, as some related answers point out (like this and this), Section 230 (47 U.S.C. § 230) protects online forum providers from both civil and criminal liability for user content they ...
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When does transmitting something create a copy of it?
If I send a bunch of Internet packets containing the bytes of a copyrighted work to you, privately, is a "copy" of the work being made? And if so, by who?
Say we're talking about a song. ...
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Can the criminal records of a person who has died be expunged?
Suppose that someone was murdered in Arizona, but resided in California. Prior to their death, this person had been convicted of misdemeanors and felonies.
Can the executor of this deceased person's ...
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How would one go about a DBA on the internet?
AFAIK a DBA (Doing business as) needs to be for the target market, not for the place of the business. If I'm wrong, that's that.
If I'm correct, then how would one who is selling over the internet to (...
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Can I create a "business website" without registering a business or DBA?
Let's say I want to create a website where customers can order custom chairs. I've got a brand, a name, a logo, etc. Do I have to register the business first before publishing the website?
There's ...
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US: Can a website with a contact form but no privacy policy get sued
I've seen business websites where the founders are literally lawyers, and their websites do not have a privacy policy. Their websites do have a contact form where users enter their email, message, ...
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Is ad blocking assistive technology?
Say I run a website. I put ads on my website to make money. I program the web site to refuse service to people who do not actually display the ads, since they make me no money.
Then I have a user come ...
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Can I set a fee for using my web site, and later collect it?
If I set terms of service for my web site, visitors to my web site agree to them when they use my web site (beyond, presumably, the usage technically required to obtain the text of the terms).
It is ...
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Is there a law that regulates charging an online account to which the owner has no access?
Is it legal for an online service to charge an account holder credit card for services that are contingent on the account holder being able to manage their account if the account holder's access has ...
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Can Meta create a Twitter clone?
Meta is about to release an app called Threads that has been labeled by news sources as a Twitter rival or Twitter clone.
I don't know how similar Threads actually is to Twitter, but hypothetically if ...
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