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Article #632587Re: AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT - International law and jurisdiction
From: Victoria Lee
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 00:00
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Spamming, mailbombing (via the Internet), harassment, pyramid schemes, and chain letters are illegal in the U.S. Most, if not all, break Federal laws. If they originate outside of the U.S. does that suddenly make them legal and the one sending them not liable or is it just extremely inconvenient to pursue the matter? Ian since you seem to be such an expert on international law and its applications within each country perhaps you could enlighten us? A comparison that might help: If an _______ (fill in the blank with country) citizen sent a mail bomb to another country and it exploded and killed someone do you actually think that no crime would have been committed because the bomb originated and was sent in another country and the country of origin did not have laws specifically prohibiting the sending of mail bombs? I suspect that rather than assuming you're a 100% safe from U.S. jurisdiction you might want to check extradition treaties of your country to make sure, before you break American laws via the Internet. While spamming is not likely to get much federal attention bilking hundreds or thousands of U.S. citizens out of large sums of money might be another matter. -- Lee - Indiana - Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty.
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From: Victoria Lee <hax...@scican.net> Subject: Re: AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT - International law and jurisdiction Date: 1997/03/06 Message-ID: <331EE2F9.5328@scican.net> X-Deja-AN: 223579967 References: <33170DE3.1BFE@geocities.com> <3317CCBE.4BA6@asu.edu> <33193014.1403008@news.airmail.net> <331B5321.2F95@sympatico.ca> <331c0a04.45901222@news.airmail.net> <331CE0DA.4D1@usa.net> Organization: Net Direct, Inc. (317) 251-5252 Reply-To: hax...@scican.net Newsgroups: alt.fetish.tongue,alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.herbs,alt.folklore.science,alt.folklore.urban,alt.forsale,alt.food.professionals,alt.food.wine,alt.games,alt.games.descent,alt.games.duke3d,alt.games.final-fantasy,alt.games.mechwarrior2,alt.games.quake,alt.games.sf2,alt.games.vga-planets,alt.games.warcraft,alt.games.whitewolf,alt.games.video.sony-playstation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit