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by ableton 3279 days ago
The CFAA is a really, really nasty law. According to some interpretations, you are breaking it any time you violate the tiny terms of use at the bottom of a website. So basically anybody could get convicted if the prosecution really wants to. Somebody got convicted for pretending to be a fictional person on myspace, but it was overturned (granted, the person was cyberbullying that resulted in a suicide, but still) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Megan_Meier