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Sorry I'm on mobile so I can give one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Read

We are still far away from this short story reflecting reality. Do you have a better example?

Another great example would be the example of stallman "In the future, debuggers will be illegal to use" and a recent court case where a person was sent to jail for accessing a website with a spoofed user agent using wget.

If you're talking about weev, I can not think of a more disingenuous way of describing what he was sent to jail for. Otherwise, I can't find what you're talking about with a simple search.

I am completely unsure how you went from a prediction that hasn't come true to an unrelated computer crime.

There was a court case, where the argument was that "as spoofing a useragent is not a common use case that a normal computer user could do, it has to be considered criminal activity in itself". This is what I was referring to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9151263

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