Is Distributed Computing a Crime?

For ZDNet News, Lisa Bowman writes…

\”David McOwen is losing a lot of sleep these days over his decision to participate in a distributed computing project two years ago. The former computer administrator at DeKalb Technical College in Georgia found out recently that he could face up to 30 years in jail and fines totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars because he installed some distributed computing software on the school\’s computers.\”
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