On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:09:53AM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >Francesco isn't giving advice to people in Italy, he's giving advice to > >people on debian-legal as a whole. Given that unlicensed legal advice is a > >criminal matter as Sean mentions, there is more to be concerned about than > >his local laws.
> If this were true, the logical consequences are absurd. If I send an > email to my friend Bob in the USA, suggesting that he should go to the > judge and ask for leniency on his drink driving charge, I can now be > arrested for committing a criminal offence next time I travel to the USA? It's unlikely (Bob has to be in a jurisdiction within the US where offering such legal advice is a criminal offense, and someone has to file charges, and the police have to decide it's worth their bother to get a warrant for your arrest, and the warrant has to come to the attention of someone you come in contact with when you enter the US), but seems possible. > Whatever happened to the First Amendment? Do you also count on First Amendment protection against charges of libel, slander, and false advertising? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
