On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Peter Gervai <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Martijn Hoekstra > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 21, 2013 8:56 AM, "Peter Gervai" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The account and/or underlying IP is > > blocked. That is the technical impediment. The action that is now a > federal > > offense, it seems, is to defy the warning, by circumventing the block by > > changing IP and/or account to do what you were told not to do on the > > warning. > > Technicalities aside if I follow you right then it is a federal > offense to edit Wikipedia when you were told not to (eg. banned but > _not_ blocked). If that's the case the IP part of the discussion is > mainly irrelevant as one does not have to evade a block to violate the > ban. > [insert IANAL disclaimer here] No, the linked case (and I apologize for posting a feedly link[0], it links to an ars article, I was on my phone at the time, but the link is good) demonstrates that if there is a ban to violate, the technical evasion of the block becomes a crime. Evading a block without an indication to stop seems to be not a violation, nor is editing in defiance of a ban while no block is present. It is quite possible that a final warning could be considered a ban, but that's straying a bit from the original case. [0] the target for the original link was http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/changing-ip-address-to-access-public-website-ruled-violation-of-us-law/ > > The central issue though, that it > > seems block evasion is a federal offense, is not affected by the > difficulty > > in proving evidence for it. It is the question whether the evasion is a > > crime that bothers me. > > [insert meetoo here] > > g > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
