It's Illegal to Annoy

Wow, this should make life different in a lot of online communities - it's now illegal for someone to use the Internet "without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy." There's that sticky problem of how do you prove intent to annoy... and really, what is the standard for annoying, anyway? Anybody want to start trolling some communities to test this new legislation out?

HR 3402 - Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 has the following language in the section entitled Preventing Cyberstalking:

"Whoever... utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person... who receives the communications... shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."