"Angry Phillies Fan Tagged Out in Cyberspace"

Disgruntled fans, take note. You can boo and you can complain on talk radio. But you can't resort to hacking and e-mail spam in order to voice your displeasure. From Andrews Publications on FindLaw:

A disgruntled Phillies fan who allegedly took his frustration into cyberspace by hacking into computers nationwide to launch spam e-mails criticizing the baseball team has been convicted of computer crimes by a Philadelphia federal jury.

Allan Eric Carlson of Glendale, Calif., flooded the e-mail servers of the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., Knight-Ridder Inc., espnmag.com, foxsports.com and sportingnews.com to express his displeasure about the management of the baseball team, according to federal prosecutors. The jury found Carlson guilty on 52 counts of computer fraud and 27 counts of identity fraud.

I suppose this gives new meaning to the term, "Phillie Phanatic."

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