Click Fraud or Not?

[legalnoob123]

I have a website with google ads on it. If I were to go to a website where thousands of users are forums/chat and I advertise them to go to my website and click an AD, is that considered a crime? I did this for a few hours and got over 700 unique clicks with about 30 cents a click and it was just over $200 and now I'm worried because I know if I put in full time I could probably get a few thousand clicks a day, all unique. What I'm wondering is this fraud, the people are clicking on their own free will. Would this fall under freedom of speech from me asking, or are they committing the fraud.


This may violate TOS a bit, but does it violate anything criminally?

Please help...

Thanks in advance.

 

[mightymoose]

No crime.
I have wondered about these before. It seems a tech savvy person could just spoof their IP and click on the ad all day long.
No worries though... but you will probably find it harder and harder to get unique clicks as you will find yourself blocked from more and more sites for spamming.

 

[legalnoob123]

Thanks man, I got another question if you got the chance..

Is what the Warez people doing illegal, they make you click on a whole set of ads before you can download any programs or music?

 

[mightymoose]

Nothing illegal about it.
No such thing as "click fraud" either