----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx> ----- From: Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:08:59 -0800 To: politech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Politech] Lawsuit challenges law targeting Internet "annoyances" [fs] User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) The complaint: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/annoy.complaint.020906.pdf News coverage: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6037439.html Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/2006/01/12/new-law-targets/ The prohibition in the new law: "Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." -Declan _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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