Hmm, okay, I see all of your points, I guess it just never occured to me that the profit margin on a $2000+ computer is less than even the total cost of a copy of Office (pretending it's 100% profit). It seems like that profit margin would have to be actually SIGNIFICANTLY lower than the cost of Office since obviously the Mac:Office ratio is not actually 1:1 as I assumed for argument's sake in the original post.

I think the real question is why a structural engineering firm puts out ads on high school tests... lots of 16-year-olds contracting bridges and highrises these days?

Maybe I'm being naive here, but how could this possibly be true? Even if every single Mac owner bought a copy of Office for every single Mac they owned, wouldn't Microsoft still be making less money by virtue of the fact that Office is (hopefully? I haven't checked) cheaper than the Mac itself?

I don't understand... clearly the charges are just the first thing they could think of to charge this terrible woman with, because the actual wrong committed (driving a girl to suicide) is not explicitly illegal anywhere. So they chose... 'computer fraud' and violating MySpace TOS?

Hello!? This is a 30+-year-old woman lying about her identity in order to start a romantic relationship with a 13-year-old girl! Of course her intent was not sexual but if Lori Drew's HUSBAND had perpetrated this exact same "prank" I guarantee the not-quite-accurate charge would have been sexually soliciting a minor, not breaking a EULA!

The jury is sympathetic enough in this case that I think this charge could definitely pass...