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| Groklaw Summarizes the Lori Drew Verdict                           |
|   from the unpredictable-and-retroactve dept.                      |
|   posted by kdawson on Sunday November 30, @18:37 (The Courts)     |
|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/30/2014248 |
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Bootsy Collins writes “Last Wednesday, the Lori Drew ‘cyberbullying’ case
ended in [0]three misdemeanor convictions under the Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act, a 1986 US Federal law intended to address illegally accessing
computer systems. The interpretation of the act by the Court to cover
violations of website terms of service, a circumstance obviously not
considered in the law’s formulation and passage, may have profound
effects on the intersection of the Internet and US law. Referring to an
amicus curiae brief filed by online rights organizations and law
professors, PJ at Groklaw [1]breaks down the implications of the decision
to support her assertion that ‘unless this case is overturned, it is time
to get off the Internet completely, because it will have become too risky
to use a computer.’”