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Nature 415, 107 (10 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415107b
Charges over computing project may set precedent
Erika Check
SETI@home users beware — aiding the quest for extraterrestrial intelligence could land you on the wrong side of the law.Computer administrator David McOwen faces prosecution by the state of Georgia after he downloaded distributed-computing software — which divides time-consuming computing problems among many machines — onto computers at DeKalb Technical College, where he worked two years ago.
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