Swartz, 26, was facing federal computer fraud charges and could have served 35 years in prison.
New divisions have been set up to tackle modern crimes such as money-laundering and computer fraud.
Mr Swartz had intended to plead not guilty to charges of computer fraud and wire fraud.
The speakers encouraged audience members to lobby for changes in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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Remotely attempting to cause damage to computers without authorisation breaks the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Craigslist threw in a kitchen sink of legal claims, including violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
He denied the charges of computer fraud against him and his trial was set to begin this month.
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In 2011, he was arrested in Boston for alleged computer fraud and illegally obtaining documents from protected computers.
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Prosecutors say Kuzmin pleaded guilty to other computer fraud charges in May 2011.
Jennifer Lynch of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said her group is working to change the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
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The hacking crimes Keys is charged with come from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was enacted in the 1980s.
Following Swartz's death, US House Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act called Aaron's Law.
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The hacking crimes Keys is charged are laid out in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was enacted in the 1980s.
Mr. Swartz faced charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer.
He denied charges of computer fraud at an initial hearing last year, but his federal trial was due to begin next month.
Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act generally prohibits unauthorized access to computers.
The EFF said it hoped to reform the Computer Fraud and Misuse Act in the wake of Mr Swartz's prosecution and subsequent suicide.
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That privacy violation, the lawsuit alleges, breaches the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud Abuse Act and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, among other statutes.
The company requested a temporary restraining order for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and facilitating copyright infringement, such as downloading pirated games.
Forced tracking and attacking (levels 2-4) violate U.S. federal law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which criminalizes unauthorized access to systems and data.
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The legality of using Firesheep is less wooly when it comes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which criminalizes accessing computer systems without authorization.
Identity theft and computer fraud are criminal offenses subject to imprisonment.
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Such fabrication, the court stated, can give rise to charges under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, as was the case in United States v.
On the same day, Butu pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud, and he agreed to be sentenced to 21 months in prison.
After downloading millions of academic papers from the online service JSTOR, Swartz was prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and faced up to 35 years in prison.
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Orin Kerr of the George Washington University Law School wrote an excellent OpEd for the WSJ on the obscure law called the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which was enacted in 1986.
Despite JSTOR declining to pursue the case, and later in 2001 making its public-domain resources freely available, the federal suit continued, with charges of computer fraud and wire fraud carrying a potential sentence of 35 years.
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On September 17, 2012, Dolan pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, and he agreed to be sentenced to seven years in prison.
Since then, he admitted to sending the material WikiLeaks and pleaded guilty to reduced charges on nine counts that alleged violations of federal espionage and computer fraud laws, and to one count alleging violation of a military regulation prohibiting wrongful storage of classified information.
The category of cyber crime includes fraudulent online shopping activity, computer software service fraud, computer misuse crime, offences linked to computer viruses and spyware and computer hacking.
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