Please, no hate mail. Heres' my question.
From what I've read, to qualify as cyberstalking, you have to be harassing and/or threatening someone. The person who thinks they are being cyberstalked is first supposed to ask you to stop, then report your IP, and then file a charge - if I read right. Do they have to do all that, or can they go straight to a charge?
Some lady is charging me with cyberstalking. The communications I had with this person were never threatening, nor did I harass her. She never told me to stop talking to her. I never tried to find out personal information. All I did was take some pictures and her name. Could she really win a case against me for cyberstalking? Also, does taking her name and some of her pictures qualify as identity theft, or do you have to take more info than that? What is the penalty for breaking the copyright law (which right now, appears to be the only thing I did.)
Thank you SO much.
2007-10-11
18:25:25
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Also, how soon are they required to tell me they are pressing a charge against me? She told me to call someone months ago, but she gave me the wrong phone number. I only contacted her again 2 days ago (no contact in the periods in between, even though she didn't ask me not too.)
She responded telling me to not bother and that prosecutors were pressing charges on me. Obviously they've been working on it for awhile. When are they legally supposed to let me know?
2007-10-11
18:27:34 ·
update #1
So is this a criminal or civil charge?
I'm a juvenile, how does that change things?
The lady has a boy and twin girls - I took her name and her images but said I had triplets. Would that be considered trying to pretend to be her?
2007-10-11
18:58:42 ·
update #2
She never told me to stop. I never had any intent against against or including her at all. All I was doing was using her images to pretend to be a mom of triplets. There was no intent beyond that.
Also, she brought prosecutors in the day after she found out.
2007-10-11
19:01:06 ·
update #3
And oh yeah - regarding the Cyberstalking law. What I did in no way defamed anyone. I misrepresented myself, but I did not do so in a harmful or mean way.
2007-10-11
19:02:54 ·
update #4