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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by ignoranceprior on Sunday October 20, 2019 @04:17PM (#21306790)

Is this legal?

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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by brinox on Sunday October 20, 2019 @04:34PM (#21306912)

I can only speak for Germany, where it's definitely not.

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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by orangepanda on Sunday October 20, 2019 @06:22PM (#21307663)

Can you cite a law?

For future reference.

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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by jotaen on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:01AM (#21309673)

E.g. §5 UWG [1], the law against unfair business practices (“unlauterer Wettbewerb”). See also [2].

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/uwg_2004/__5.html

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlauterer_Wettbewerb

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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by smitty1e on Sunday October 20, 2019 @04:36PM (#21306925)

How would you write a law to make it illegal?

The better remedy is precisely what is occurring: someone calls the Emperor's bluff, and we all get on HN and engage in cheeky humor.

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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by throwaway66920 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @04:38PM (#21306948)

False advertising?

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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by smitty1e on Sunday October 20, 2019 @09:34PM (#21308684)

How are you actually going to prove the state of a distributed system in an legally actionable way?

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Re:38 People are looking at this post right now by jrochkind1 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @10:20PM (#21308870)

In the OP case, the evidence is not a problem, right? There's nothing specially about "legally actionable", you just need to convince a judge or jury that it happened, as with any other fact. In this case, with the JS code cited.

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