Re:FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch
by scientician on Thursday April 19, 2018 @09:05PM
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> If it's illegal to, say, hack into your competitors servers and steal all their intellectual property, you don't get to mail a server to somewhere with weak IP laws, and then do all the theft.
Wait, why not?
Re:FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch
by Arn_Thor on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:07AM
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Because you're still a US company which has to comply with US laws... As long as the US government finds you at fault, it can nab you and all your US assets if it pleases. Now, if you emigrate entirely and bring all your employees, assets and family and are okay with never setting foot on US soil again, then you can breach all the US laws you want
Re:FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch
by simonh on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:54AM
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It's like committing mail fraud but sending the mail via a PO box in another country, or wire fraud and routing the call abroad. There's no magic pixie dust about the internet in cases like this, it's just another telecoms and delivery service and we've had those for a long time with settled law governing them.
They're a US company not following US law.
> they launched from an INDIAN launcher
And? If it's illegal to, say, hack into your competitors servers and steal all their intellectual property, you don't get to mail a server to somewhere with weak IP laws, and then do all the theft.
> Seriously -- what power does the FCC hope to exert at this point?
Well, they can fine the hell out of Swarm (as the article explicitly states, so I'm not sure why you seem confused on this point)! That's what US regulators do when US companies violate US regulations, as (apparently) happened here.
> We live in a world where launchers exist in other countries
That doesn't do you much good if you aren't in the other country. If they wanted to not follow US laws, they probably should have moved somewhere else first.