Matthew L. Levine, a principal at Fish & Richardson, writes that you should look before you click - or you could go to jail for committing a federal crime. That is the lesson of United States v. Lori Drew . In November 2008, a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted Lori Drew, a 49-year-old mother from Missouri, of three misdemeanor violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a statute traditionally used to prosecute computer hacking. What criminal act did Ms. Drew commit that justifies sending her to jail for up to three years? According to federal prosecutors in California, she merely breached the contractual terms of service of MySpace.
March 12, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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