on 8/13/2002 2:34 PM Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
Another more insidious bowl of noodles is dealing with joe-jobs
Same issues, really. Actually easier in one way, since there's forgery
or misreprentaton involved.
Yeah, charges of fraud can be much more severe
The problem is that the default defense condition becomes "we didn't
authorize it"
Similar-to/regardless-of the higher overheads you cited, proving that
somebody did authorize it would be nigh impossible at scale, making the
law essentially unenforcable except for the dumbasses who didn't obfuscate
the paper trail.
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