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State / Statute Name Trespass/
Intrusion		 Tampering/
Destruction		 Transmission of Spam

Distribution of Spam Software

 Interruption of services Piracy Privacy/
Invasion		 Punishment
CALIFORNIA*;CAL. PENAL CODE § 501 (C)(9) N/A     X         Up to 3 years imprison-
ment
DELAWARE; DEL. CODE ANN. § 937 Unrequest-ed or unauthor-ized electronic mail or use of network or software to cause same X X X X X     Class A Misde-meanor to Class D Felony
LOUISIANA; LA. REV. STAT. ANN. § 14:73.6 Offenses against electronic mail service providers X   X X       Up to $5,000 fine.
NEVADA; NEV. REV. STAT. § 205.492 (4)-(5) N/A     X X X     Misde-meanor
PENNSYLVANIA; 18 PA. CONS. STAT. § 7661 Unlawful trans-mission of electronic mail     X X       Felony of the third degree to misde-meanor of the third degree
TENNESSEE; TENN. CODE ANN. § 39-14-603       X         N/A
VIRGINIA; VA. CODE ANN. § 18:2-152.3:1 Trans-mission of unsolicited bulk electronic mail (spam)     X X       Class 6 Felony
Note: "Unauthorized Use" has been omitted from this table and is not covered by this statute

* In some situations, such as with California, if a state has dealt directly with a particular category of computer crime within the context of a larger encompassing computer crime statute, we have included in our statutory analysis a cross reference to the relevant subsection of that state’s statute. We have denoted states that are also listed in our general computer crime statute section with a ‘*’.


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