Wikipedia says "The law prohibits accessing a computer without authorization, or in excess of authorization." The law itself: "knowingly and with intent to def

Wikipedia says "The law prohibits accessing a computer without authorization, or in excess of authorization." The law itself: "knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access, and by means of such conduct furthers the intended fraud and obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing obtained consists only of the use of the computer and the value of such use is not more than $5,000 in any 1-year period" Since it explicitly mentions the value of the use of a computer as something that can be illegal to take, the main open question would be whether the $5000 of such use is per computer, or per crime. Another option would be "(C) intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization, and as a result of such conduct, causes damage and loss." if the electricity cost can count as "damage and loss".