Forwarding letters is illegal?

The mere fact of sending messages or exchanging messages on sites is already the basis for initiating a lawsuit, says Ned Snow, a professor of law at the University of Arkansas. In a document that will be published this summer in a Kansas review of court practice, Snow argues that one of the most common actions in the digital age is privacy violation and warns that their courts are considering this issue.

It is largely assumed that the Copyright Act (1976), which defines the terms of legal use, is good for the recipient of the mail for sending private messages. But Snow believes that the constitutional right to private life replaces a federal law. Snow gives the following example: “Suppose that I sent you a letter in which I write that I cannot bear my boss, and then you send him this message. Federal copyright law says that if it doesn’t cause any economic damage, then copying is allowed. ”According to federal law, private messaging is indeed legal, but federal law does not protect the interests of privacy.

Snow says copyright law cannot substitute for a law designed to protect privacy. Federal copyright law does not apply to private messages.

If Snow is right, then, of course, Bash.org.ru will not be condemned, and you will not be jailed because of the publication of correspondence logs there (especially since we are talking about the United States). However, to punish the ruble for the dissemination of private communications can certainly.