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Re:I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for by jlgreco on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @11:55AM (#5067628)
Had Aaron not been changing his MAC address, and not used a fake email, would his curl script have been illegal?

If changing your MAC is not itself an issue, how do we determine what (normally legal) things you cannot do after (legally) changing your MAC?

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Re:I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for by FireBeyond on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @12:13PM (#5067741)
In this context, yes. It would just have been easier for MIT to prevent access.
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Re:I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for by jlgreco on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @12:33PM (#5067900)
So the next time someone recursively wget's my website in violation of my TOS, I can expect to get the feds interested?
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Re:I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for by FireBeyond on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @02:33PM (#5068552)
If you can show "damages" to their satisfaction/threshold, yes (bear in mind that, as should be no surprise to anyone here, definitions of damage and the measurability thereof may significantly vary).
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