It seems like the days of school yard bullies, and creepy guys asking children to come in their car for a piece of candy have moved for a large part to the internet. The problem is, that because of these predators and bullies have managed to jump ahead of lawmakers and are avoiding serving jail time for their crimes.

In the largely infamous case of Lori Drew, the Minnesota woman who used a Myspace account to bully 13 year old Megan Meier into hanging herself, she could end up serving little or no time in jail for her role in the suicide. There is a large chance that her charges could be dismissed.

According to Tech News World, Drew who pleaded not guilty to to one count of conspiracy to cause emotional distress and three charges of accessing protected computers without authorization, could walk for one simple reason: the laws she was accused of breaking were not crafted for the circumstance.

Circumstances like this have come as no major shock to business who have had to deal with this problem due to large limitations in dealing with regulating e-commerce and web 2.0 technologies.  Though over the past two years it has gotten better, with groundbreaking and controversial legal decisions, the social factor of laws and the internet is seriously behind.

Currently laws fail to regulate online what common sense dictates should be regulated in a large web of areas when it comes to general society and its moral compass.

Child porn for example we all know is illegal. The U.S. Supreme Court decades ago deemed it so because it is against the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech because children are harmed when making it.  However with computers being added into the mix, however in the landmark case Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition in 2003, child porn created through CGI is protected under the First Amendment, because real children are not used in its production.

The only legal leeway was granted this year when the Supreme Court made it illegal to ask for or offer child porn no matter how it is made. What this ruling does is allow prosecutors the ability to go after certain individuals that are interested in going after of seeking certain types of material.