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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
For example, let's say I am an employee of a company in good standing, and I am granted remote access to the company's servers via a VPN. While working, I delete several files. Is this now an illegal act? Should I have asked my boss prior to deleting the files? Does every different type of file action require explicit permission?
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Nobody blamed Amazon from removing the file from their servers. They blame Amazon from removing the file from their kindles.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Or, let's say I'm the office IT person, and I see that a user has violated company policy by putting MP3's on a file server, and I delete the files. Is this also illegal? Would it be illegal if the user paid for the MP3 files, and as such is that user's private property?
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The same as above. Again, servers, not clients.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Or, let's say you purchase an antivirus software program. You run it, it detects a number of viruses on your computer, and deletes them. Is this application performing an illegal action?
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Actually, I'd de-install said antivirus software. And get one that will ask my permission before deleting that virus. I've had applications that were recognized as virii, but most certainly weren't. They just used some things that a virus uses too, to do their function.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Actually, they can, and it happens all the time. Heck, on Friday a technician uninstalled multiple applications, altered my system's registry, and deleted files during a remote support session, while I supervised him. Other times, I've supervised remote techs who installed software, and in the process made significant revisions to the system and deleted files.
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You were there. You would have been able to stop him from deleting certain files so you could back them up on another medium. The fact remains that Amazon removed the file
without notice. Had they issued a warning that the file would be deleted within 24 hours (or any other arbitrary number), I doubt that the community would have exploded over this.