You are committing a crime right now

Re:You are committing a crime right now by jnazario on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @09:21AM (#4814286)

bear in mind that weev's an awful poster child for this. he's a known internet professional troll and has made a lot of enemies in the past few years through his actions. ISTR he'd probably been under investigation for a while and this is what stuck.

as noted elsewhere in comments in an article about the event he laughed that what he was doing was probably illegal, suggesting knowledge of a likely crime.

i'm no fan of an absurd application of laws, but there have got to be better poster children for this sort of thing.

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Re:You are committing a crime right now by maradydd on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @04:51PM (#4816496)

Weev may not be the hero Gotham City needs, but he's the one Gotham City's stuck with. That's the thing about the judicial system; you go to court with the defendant you have.

The government may well have been counting on weev's reputation to work against him here. If your goal is to set a precedent that allows "unauthorized access" to be defined after the fact, you want a defendant people won't stand up for. It's much easier to turn bad law into bad case law when people don't fight back.

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