Yahoo: Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal crime.U.S. prosecutors turned to a novel interpretation of computer hacking law to indict a Missouri mother on charges connected to the suicide of a 13-year-old MySpace user.
What about "a rose by any other name..."? Maybe it makes a difference what you're doing with the fake name? Of course, I suppose buried in all those things you agree to when you sign up for things there are provisions, codicils, and blind alleys that refer to these things. And if somehow you get them, the website, implicated in legal troubles by your actions, then you're going to have troubles.
