So you thought it was safe to empty the trash on your computer. Turns out a guy is being sued for doing that. Of course, the files in his computer's trash were the markers used by Coupons.com to track him as a unique user and keep him from printing off more than one of each coupon.
And they're suing him under the DMCA, for cracking their security "technology". Because the DMCA is a law that makes it criminal to even think about cracking security technologies, even if they're stupid. Or if you have a legitimate reason for cracking them, like they are keeping you from your own stuff.
Hopefully this new legal strategy will fail. Or else we'll end up like the White House, not allowed to ever delete anything. Not that the rules stop them from deleting, either.
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