Originally Posted by http://abcnews.go.com/Business/jail-personal-office-computer/story?id=14850725

Nick Akerman, a partner with Dorsey & Whitney in New York who specializes in issues of computer fraud and abuse, says Nosal is indeed a teapot tempest.

It's "ridiculous," he says, and "absurd" to imagine the law being applied to rinky-dink infractions, such as people goofing off. The idea that somebody could be sent to jail for checking sports scores? He dismisses it as "crazy."