Over the years, legislatures and the courts progressively have treated the unauthorized movement of data bits over someone else’s chattel into a “trespass” of that chattel–an activity I’ll call “online trespass to chattels.” For example, many states have enacted computer crime laws that restrict unauthorized use of Internet and telecommunications equipment.

via The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Is a Failed Experiment – Forbes.

As a result, these proposed changes will end the adverse consequences from the online trespass to chattels experiment while letting chattel owners prevent socially disadvantageous online usage of their chattels.