SilverOrange
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Colorado
Hello all!
I have a complicated question. I am in college for Computer Networking\Programming, and I want to learn a bit more about the LEGAL side of programming, such as privacy laws. Now, a debate has come up between me and a friend about what companies can access on your computer legally. The argument is about a video game, we are trying to find a better way to ban people from the game that cheat or break the rules. Now, as of now there are a bunch of methods of doing this, but none of them are fool proof. What I want to know, where would I be able to read up on these laws, is there a distinguishable line between accessing amounts\certain areas of your computer for company use before it gets illegal. Right now, Sony and other top video game creators mostly use MAC or Hardware ID banning. This accesses the hardware ID of certain parts of your computer, mostly the hard drive and network interface card, and gets the unique ID.
So what I want to know, would an application or game be able to legally create a hidden file(s) on a user's PC, without their knowledge, in order to distinguish people apart even if they change other data such as Hardware ID's. I am saying no, because you didn't give them consent to do it, since it can't be in the Terms and Conditions otherwise it would negate the whole point of doing it in the first place.
I am sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum, this is the closest I could find to what I was talking about.
Hello all!
I have a complicated question. I am in college for Computer Networking\Programming, and I want to learn a bit more about the LEGAL side of programming, such as privacy laws. Now, a debate has come up between me and a friend about what companies can access on your computer legally. The argument is about a video game, we are trying to find a better way to ban people from the game that cheat or break the rules. Now, as of now there are a bunch of methods of doing this, but none of them are fool proof. What I want to know, where would I be able to read up on these laws, is there a distinguishable line between accessing amounts\certain areas of your computer for company use before it gets illegal. Right now, Sony and other top video game creators mostly use MAC or Hardware ID banning. This accesses the hardware ID of certain parts of your computer, mostly the hard drive and network interface card, and gets the unique ID.
So what I want to know, would an application or game be able to legally create a hidden file(s) on a user's PC, without their knowledge, in order to distinguish people apart even if they change other data such as Hardware ID's. I am saying no, because you didn't give them consent to do it, since it can't be in the Terms and Conditions otherwise it would negate the whole point of doing it in the first place.
I am sorry if I posted this in the wrong forum, this is the closest I could find to what I was talking about.