Facemash and Sources of Law
In the fall of 2003, college sophomore Mark Zuckerberg created a new website called Facemash. Unlike the website "HotOrNot", where users assign a number to rank the hotness of photos, Facemash used a more accurate method of ranking: the Elo chess ranking formula. The "only" problem was that Zuckerberg hacked Harvard University's computer databases to populate his new website with student photos--without the consent of the students or Harvard. So, was Facemash a prank or a valid science experiment? Either way, what legal liability issues does such a website generate? In this video, we will address these questions by presenting the main sources of law in the U.S.
In the fall of 2003, college sophomore Mark Zuckerberg created a new website called Facemash. Unlike the website "HotOrNot", where users assign a number to rank the hotness of photos, Facemash used a more accurate method of ranking: the Elo chess ranking formula. The "only" problem was that Zuckerberg hacked Harvard University's computer databases to populate his new website with student photos--without the consent of the students or Harvard. So, was Facemash a prank or a valid science experiment? Either way, what legal liability issues does such a website generate? In this video, we will address these questions by presenting the main sources of law in the U.S.