Credit to Slashdot for the tip. This decision comes out of the appeal from the Lori Drew case. It was published on Friday.
While the Lori Drew case was sad, there was some interesting precedent being developed - specifically, that Drew was guilty of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by breaking MySpace's TOS. This would have wide reaching implications - specifically, if you violate a website's published TOS you could be found guilty of a criminal federal offense as opposed to the matter being one for the civil courts. We've often talked about this subject, and there are vocal advocates of both positions.
The US District Judge's published decision seemed to dismiss this idea as a dangerous precedent to set:
