> Obtaining goods by deception aka "false pretenses" or misrepresentation statutes. Sure, this could fall under those statutes in jurisdictions where that cov

> Obtaining goods by deception aka "false pretenses" or misrepresentation statutes. Sure, this could fall under those statutes in jurisdictions where that covers services. Defendant would have several ways to make that case a nightmare, to the point where I see it as basically absurd to prosecute, but still conceivably illegal. I wasn't trying to comment on whether there's some action involved in logging into a network that could satisfy some element in criminal law though. There absolutely could be some "actus reus" from a login. I was really just intending to respond to the general comment about courts accepting arguments of the sort like, "this is technically permitted under the law, therefore legal." Maybe I misread that point though, maybe cynicalkane's "technically allowed" meant "allowed by the protocol" not "technically allowed by law." In which case, consider my wandering diatribe above thoroughly moot. :)