"If you are 17 or under, a federal prosecutor could have charged you with computer hacking just for reading Seventeen magazine online..."

"... until today."

It’s not because the law got any better...

Seventeen highlights the absurdity of giving terms of service the force of law under the CFAA. It boasts a readership of almost 4.5 million teen readers with an average age of 16 and a half, and yet, until today, the average reader was legally banned from visiting Seventeen.com. That’s right, for a magazine dedicated to teen fashion, the publisher’s terms explicitly restricted online access to readers 18 and older.