On Monday December 16 2002 11:16 pm, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Jason Greenwood wrote:
> > Nope, I'm not, I'm in New Zealand (though I am also an American)
> > and if they want to prosecute me, they need to come here to do it
> > and PROVE I did something wrong, which there are many ways of
> > avoiding.
>
> I don't think that's true. Many licences are qualified as
> restricted to the courts of the owner's country.
>
> So you can be tried overseas in absentia and fined.
>
> However, collecting that fine is an international event and may or
> may not be possible. In any case the costs of collection may
> well exceed the penalty. Where the copyright owner has a local
> branch in New Zealand, you would probably be in trouble.
In any legal case, regardless of jurisdiction (worldwide), I
believe it's safe to say that what's sensibly wrong or right, what
makes (common) sense, what's morally right .... doesn't even enter
into the courtroom. Lawyers do. And you, we all, pay for 'em.
Take the boy from Norway (DeCSS), or the Russian (Acrobat sux
anyhow). It's the legal hassle and expense, even when you might
prevail, that's prohibitive. While you might be technically 'innocent
till proven guilty', maybe even _really_ innocent ... you're still
sort'a kind'a fsck'd as soon as charged, regardless of politcal or
geographic boundaries.
Anyhow, I wasn't fishin for IANAL comments, just how comfortable
y'all feel with doin P2P. Specially considerin the recent HDD
snapshot prosecutions in Europe on 'open networks' user sharing ?
IIRC, several Kazza users were the first targets.
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