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Once, out of the kindness of my foolish heart, I ran a server with a lot of great sound effects for all and sundry to download. Eventually the bandwidth was getting hammered by a huge number of leechers seemingly from some apps that had simply hard-linked to the resources. After replacing said resources [0] they soon ceased but not without a slew of abusive and entitled emails demanding I restore the SFX. Oh fun time…
I am absolutely not a lawyer, but I wouldn't do something like this for fear of falling afoul of anti-obscenity laws. For instance, the UK has a cyberflashing law which allots a two year custodial sentence for sending a graphic image (by any means) with intent to cause distress.
The world we live in: people somehow feel more comfortable posting shock/traumatic images than regular consensual porn. This is one of the few parts of internet culture I hope to see the end of. We can be edgy and offensive without traumatizing each other.
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"won't someone think of the children!?!?!" is a meme for a reason.
But it's usually used ironically in situations where there is obviously no actual harm to children present. This is not one of those situations.
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Sure: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34483145
I remember this case. I also remember that he appealed and won: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna36239042
https://www.jdspicer.co.uk/site/blog/crime-fraud/uk-indecent...
Ah, I had a similar idea. There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog. It was flooding my access logs with 404s because I don't rock wordpress. Irksome stuff. So I threw up a little 'surprise' for the ahem penetration testers ahem , if you feel brave: https://www.thran.uk/wp-login.php
In my opinion that's wrong.
Ah, I had a similar idea. There were too many bots or vulnerability scanners hitting /wp-admin.php on my blog. It was flooding my access logs with 404s because I don't rock wordpress. Irksome stuff. So I threw up a little 'surprise' for the ahem penetration testers ahem , if you feel brave: https://www.thran.uk/wp-login.php
I am absolutely not a lawyer, but I wouldn't do something like this for fear of falling afoul of anti-obscenity laws. For instance, the UK has a cyberflashing law which allots a two year custodial sentence for sending a graphic image (by any means) with intent to cause distress.
So stealing the app is OK but doing something about it is illegal? Sounds like the law all right.