On Wed, 04 Jul 2007, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Don Armstrong > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: >>> Sklyarov did what he did AT HOME IN RUSSIA. It was the company he worked >>> for that marketed it in America. >> >> And Sklyarov who traveled to the US and (at the time) allegedly >> broke the law in a demonstration while in the US. [The insanity of >> the anticircumvention clause of the DMCA notwithstanding.] > > If he was charged with breaking US law on US soil, fair enough. The > problem, as I see it, was that he was ... > > Charged with breaking US law, as a result of actions he did in > Russia, in order to comply with Russian law. > > THAT is the lunacy (and American megalomania) of the Sklyarov > debacle.
Except that he wasn't. Reading the complaint and indictment would be a reasonable first start before complaining about American megalomania. [Otherwise you're indulging in the American pastime of rushing to judgement.] In addition to the demonstration, the server from which the ebook processer was distributed was located within the US, as was the payment processing stuff. You can't distribute goods in a country and remain free from being indicted when those goods violate the laws of a country, the sanity of the country's laws notwithstanding. Regardless, we're wildly OT for -legal. Don Armstrong -- When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. -- Emo Philips. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]