Posted: June 7th, 2016

Discuss whether any violations occur in the following scenarios. Provide relevant laws, cases, and examples to support your answers.

1. Beth advertised her 2005 Corvette for sale on the Internet. In her
advertisement, she falsely stated that the vehicle had only been driven 60,000
miles when in fact it had been driven 160,000 miles. Steve reasonably believed
Beth s statement that the car only had 60,000 miles and entered into a contract
over the Internet to buy the car from Beth.

Did Beth commit any crimes?

What is the status of the Internet contract?

2.
Discuss whether any violations occur in the following scenarios. Provide
relevant laws, cases, and examples to support your answers.

Steve s girlfriend Tammy broke up with him to date his best friend Bert. To
get back at Tammy, Steve took pictures of Tammy s face and pasted them on nude
pictures of another woman and posted them on the Internet. He also posted that
she had a sexually transmitted disease on his Facebook page, even though he knew
this statement was false.
Sydney accepted the employee handbook, which contained a consent and
acknowledgement that computers belonged to the company and communications using
the company owned computers were subject to monitoring. Sydney regularly used
the company computer to email his girlfriend, buy things on eBay, and
occasionally look at pornography. Sydney was fired for abusing the company s
Internet polity.