Restraining Amazon.Com's Orwellian Potential: The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act As Consumer Rights Legislation (Rough Consensus and Running Code: Integrating Engineering Principles Into the Internet Policy Debates) Restraining Amazon.Com's Orwellian Potential: The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act As Consumer Rights Legislation (Rough Consensus and Running Code: Integrating Engineering Principles Into the Internet Policy Debates)

Restraining Amazon.Com's Orwellian Potential: The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act As Consumer Rights Legislation (Rough Consensus and Running Code: Integrating Engineering Principles Into the Internet Policy Debates‪)‬

Federal Communications Law Journal 2011, March, 63, 2

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I. INTRODUCTION Amazon.com revealed a capacity for irony when it remotely deleted certain copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from its Kindle e-book readers in 2009. (1) In response, two users filed a class action lawsuit against Amazon.com. (2) Among several causes of action, the plaintiffs claimed that Amazon.com had violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA) by causing harm to their Kindles without authorization. (3) The lawsuit is one example of the ways that the CFAA has grown since it was enacted. (4) The Gawronski lawsuit is a useful case study that shows why the expansion of the CFAA is a good thing for consumers, and why recent restrictions on the Act should not prevent lawsuits like the one Justin Gawronski brought against Amazon.com.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2011
1 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
32
Pages
PUBLISHER
Federal Communications Law Journal
SIZE
340.2
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