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If someone deliberately violates a website’s terms of service, is he or she actually committing an avaira or issur (e.g. g’zaila)?
I don’t mean things that are clearly not allowed, whether written on a website or spoken aloud, such as nivul peh, loshon hora, sheker and the like. I’m specifically referring to TOS violations, such as creating multiple screen names. I’m also not referring to possibly legitimate reasons for creating additional screen names – for privacy’s sake, because the original password was forgotten, or just because someone wanted a “better” SN – but rather someone just doing it for their own amusement and/or to bother others.
Furthermore, I assume there’s an “I agree to abide by the conditions…” button that must be clicked – does clicking that button with the intention of not abiding by the rules constitute sheker? Do subsequent violations constitute additional “sheker” tallies?
Yes, obviously there is one specific poster who inspired this question, but it is a serious question, not just a “shtuch” at that poster.
Please post your halachic opinions and nothing else.
I assume there’s an “I agree to abide by the conditions…” button
1) Where?
2) I’ve never heard of “kinyan clickiya”.
now let’s see if he makes a new screen name to post on this thread
He’s been quite busy. The mods were asleep for a bit, but seem right on top of it now.
gezeila?
what was stolen?
well i dont know what the status of a website is, but the minhag hamakom on ywn is not to engage in such behaviors. If people do, then they are violating the minhag of this ‘makom,’ Perhaps a website’s terms and conditions are applicable to the dinim of a particular country. in that case, dina d’malchusah dinah.
The minhag hamakom is to violate every single rule in the “[sticky] [closed] ****RULES OF THE YWN COFFEE ROOM – PLEASE READ**** thread.
ICOT,
1) Maybe I’ll try it. The thread I referred to is not required to be clicked on before signing on.
2) 🙂
we haven’t been sleeping, he’s just been making it easier by not masking his ip.
73, yes, but as he points out, he has a signature style.
true true
Furthermore, I assume there’s an “I agree to abide by the conditions…” button that must be clicked
Not on this site. It asks for a username, email address and a CAPTCHA, and then emails a password to the email address.
Also the Terms Of Use are located at http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/policy.php.
I’ve wondered about the related question: what about when you’re downloading software, and to complete the download it says, click here to agree you’ve read the 20 pages of rules, when of course you’ve never read the rules and neither has anyone else except the person who wrote them. It basically forces everyone to lie. We are supposed to distance ourselves from falsehood. But is it really halachically wrong?
ICOT, I opened this new username, and never agreed to any terms.
(Yes, that was me.)
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