Lori Drew, the 49 year old mother who is accused of causing 13 year old girl, Megan Meiers, to hang herself is awaiting jury selection in California.

If you recall, Lori created a fake MySpace profile and used it to pretend to be a teenage boy (Josh Evans). After months of flirtation, she told Megan (through the account) that the world would be better off without her. Megan killed herself later that day.

Lori did all of this allegedly to get back at Megan for a confrontation she had with Lori’s daughter. Since then it has been a scramble to decide whether what she did actually constitutes a crime, and if so — what it would be.

Since there were no laws that applied in Missouri, the state where this tragedy occurred, she will face trial in California (the home of MySpace) where she will be charged with — of all things — TOS violations. Creating a false identity goes against MySpace’s terms of service and the as a result she will be facing 1 count of conspiracy and 3 counts of accessing a computer without authorization.

This raises the question as to how much weight do online “contracts” hold. Most of us don’t take more than a second to glance at a EULA before agreeing to it, but at what point do we become responsible for the content of these pro forma contracts?

It will be sometime before we know the outcome of the Drew case, but it continues to raise questions — the answers to which will be felt on the Internet for a long time to come.