Evan Brown at InternetCases.com has a nice summary of a recent Seventh Circuit decision concluding that a "transmission" under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act may include not only the downloading of information from the Internet, but also the loading of software from a disk. You can find Evan's entire post here.
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