When you hack into someone's personal data storage, you should be jailed as if you broke into...

[Yavin4]

someone's home and took their personal belongings.

Just because it's online, that doesn't mean that it's fair game for stealing.

[Adam051188]

1. why?

the banking industry stole trillions of dollars from the american taxpayers by strong arming congress into signing TARP.

our entire nation is build on broken treaties with natives. so we essentially stole their land.

nikola tesla had his idea's stolen by thomas edison who, together with JP Morgan(both of them were notorious cocaine users) patented the light bulb and expanded work hours and became rich. tesla died penniless.

lots of things get stolen here.

[justiceischeap]

6. Your "logic" isn't sound

Just because someone, somewhere has stolen something doesn't mean we should just excuse theft. It's illegal to hack, it's illegal to pirate and invasion of privacy is illegal.

Your post with regards to this issue should be illegal too. <= sarcasm

[Adam051188]

11. what if....

That someone is rich and famous and the somewhere is here and they have been rewarded for it

[justiceischeap]

12. As a woman (or a man) if you sign on and get a paycheck for being nude

then people are allowed to see that nudity in that instance. It doesn't mean that as a society we have carte blanche over their bodies or their private lives or the right to hack their cell phones and then share their private photos with the world.

Would you like it if someone hacked into your phone and posted all the content to the Internet? And don't say, sure, I have nothing to hide because you'd be pissed. Anyone would be pissed if their personal stuff, no matter how innocuous or racy it is, was posted for the world to see. And what they (or you) do for a living shouldn't matter one iota. Celebrities ARE entitled to privacy--not all celebrities are attention hounds and I repeat, every single person, no matter their profession, deserves the right to their privacy.

[Adam051188]

15. your talking about standards of behavior

Which are great. People in europe have those. We have jails instead, or lawyers to keep you out if . U have money. Example, o.j. simpson

[justiceischeap]

16. I don't know how OJ Simpson plays into this discussion or topic

but, yes, I'm talking about standards of behavior but I'm also talking about the law... whomever did this, broke the law. If they were in the UK, I believe the people who spread the photos could also be prosecuted.

Yes we have jails and some people deserve to be in them.

[PeaceNikki]

2. The burden of moral guilt is on the people who stole said property

It is not Ms. Ritter’s or Ms. Dunst’s responsibility to protect their own property from theft by not creating said property or only storing it in a specific place any more than it’s any woman’s responsibility to dress a certain way, travel in groups, wear special nail polish, or what-have-you to lessen the chance that someone will attempt to assault them. As is often the case when we discuss crimes of this nature against women, we have it backwards. It is not on the (usually, but not always, female) victim to take “enough” measures to protect herself but rather on the (usually, but not always, male) victimizer to choose not to commit said crime. That notion was lost on the Disney Channel back in 2007. They treated Vanessa Hudgens like a sinful child after personal nudes were leaked and stated that “Vanessa has apologized for what was obviously a lapse in judgment. We hope she’s learned a valuable lesson.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2014/09/01/jennifer-lawrence-nude-photo-leak-isnt-a-scandal-its-a-sex-crime/

[Nye Bevan]

3. The dude who hacked Sarah Palin's email served a year in prison.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Palin_email_hack

Seems about right.

[Thinkingabout]

4. A hacker has a problem, they set out to hack and it continues to grow and grow.

What right does a hacker have with others accounts and information? None. It is theft.

[PoliticAverse]

5. Christopher Chaney was sentenced to 10 years in jail for hacking into personal online accounts

See: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5471673

[emulatorloo]

7. Of course!

[randome]

8. But...but...Anonymous!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

[AngryAmish]

9. Um, you get caught you are punished more for hacking.

Remember Aaron Schwatz he was looking at 50 years for hacking. Then he killed himself.

Steal 50 pounds of gold you get out in less than ten.

[enough]

10. Unless you are the United States of America. (nt)

[hobbit709]

13. If anyone broke into my house and survived 250 lbs of teeth and fur, they'd be prosecuted.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. Jail the NSA and CIA

no wait..... they only do it for fun and pass around nude pictures in their offices of people they spy on and never use it for extortion or nefarious purposes.