What Internet activities are illegal under local, state, and federal laws?
What is illegal in “real life” is also illegal on the Internet. Local, state, and/or federal laws govern the following offenses: child pornography, distribution of pornography to minors, obscenity, copyright infringement, software and sound-recording piracy, bomb threats and hoaxes, scams and pyramid schemes, and federal computer-security violations. For more details, see Information Technology Rights and Responsibilities.
