EFF TO DEFEND MIT STUDENT BITCOIN CODERS IN COURT

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced that it will defend Jeremy Rubin, an MIT student who received an out of state subpoena following his prize award winning Bitcoin code Tidbit, in a court appearance on the 22nd of September 2014.
Jeremy Rubin, Oliver Song, Carolynz, and Kcking won the Node.js Knockout Hackathon in November 2013 for their innovative new concept Tidbit, a Bitcoin JavaScript programmed website that could be used to mine bitcoins by simply copying and incorporating a piece of code. According to court documents, the aim was to allow websites to offer users the choice of either being served advertising or mining bitcoins, thus providing websites with an alternative source of revenue.
However, as the 19 year old students were celebrating their award for the most innovative project, Brian Morgenstern, an Investigator with the Cyber Fraud Unit of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs was opening an investigation on possible breaches of Consumer Fraud Act and unauthorized computer access legislation which seems to have led to a subpoena and interrogatories served on Mr. Rubin on the 9th of December 2013.

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on 22/09/2014.