just goes to show you, that you don't have to own a gun to kill someone, yet the gun is the biggest enemy to the government and people having their constitutional right to bear arms.....I bet NOONE will push for the internet to be closed down due to the unnecessary deaths it has caused. An 8 year old is accused of 2 murders and they are trying to figure out how to hold him accountable once he becomes an adult, and here we have an adult to is being punished if she was a child who knew no better!!!!!!!!!!!

this woman got off easy she picked on a kid till the kid killed herself this women should be facing 30yrs not 3yrs and a fine....This was a grown women picking on a kid she needs real help.like along time before she sees daylight again if ever...

While I do think this case could potentially set a dangerous precedent, verifying the identity of someone signing up for a website (like MySpace) is so infeasible that it's impossible. MySpace has hundreds of millions of users, and policing all of that is quite simply not possible. There's also Facebook, Xanga, LiveJournal... there is just no way.

The reason Drew was charged with violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is because there isn't a federal internet harassment law, and that was the closest thing to. Hopefully, after this case, one will be created.

While I don't deny that cyber bullying is a problem and a law needs to be enacted to criminalize it few people realize the negatives that could come from this verdict. The biggest and farthest reaching could be new laws that require websites, like myspace, to verify that the person signing up for access is a who they claim to be. This puts undo burdens on the owners of the websites and gets rid of one of the major benefits of the internet, anonymity. Take this comment as an example, will a law be put into place that requires wboy to verify that the name I entered here is actually my name? If so will wboy take on that added cost or will they simply disable the comments section of their website? The implications of this verdict could be very far reaching and extreme care must be taken in any laws that are passed as a result.