>Which country laws does apply?

At the very least, Intel owns the copyright on this material, so sharing it is a copyright violation in any country that is a signatory to the Berne Convention or the TRIPS Agreement, which is effectively almost the entire planet.

Then you have to add Trade Secret laws on top of that, which will have slightly narrower jurisdiction but still impact a lot of countries. There are very few places on earth where you would not be facing any legal trouble whatsoever for releasing this material.

Interesting info!

Here's a good list of potential candidate countries which are neither in Berne Convention nor TRIPS Agreement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention#List_of_count...

It may take effort and money to be protected, e.g. setting up a legal entity in that country which takes full responsibility and you cannot be legally forcibly unmasked as being a proprietor, and other local laws may need to be fully checked out to explore other risks.

Nothing is a guarantee and perfection doesn't exist but it's fun to explore these legal layers.

But that only matters if given country also prosecute you effectively.

You probably find quite a bunch of countries where it's illegal but not prosecuted. Through I only know if Russia.

Hi msbarnett: sorry unrelated to this thread. In an older thread you mention an acronym TFA. The thread was a discussion on sparse files and removing bytes from the front of a file. What is TFA?

If you’re referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20110301, it stands for “The Fucking Article” as in http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFM.html

Haha - thanks :-) I thought it was an abbreviation for some special tome on Operating Systems design.

For example in Russia you are basically guaranteed to not be prosecuted for all kinds of cybercrime as long as you don't have Russia/Russian companies or Russian citizens.

Intel is an American company; so wherever there is an extradition treaty with the USA and where there are also similar laws.

Wouldn't the publishing part just be standard copyright infrignement and just a civil matter?

No country Will extradite their own citizens, though. If intel wants the person punished, they have to sue them in the country they live in.

> No country Will extradite their own citizens, though.

This is demonstrably false. While not all of this list are Canadian citizens, some are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_extradited_fro...

Just had to remind of Charles Ng, huh? If you have a weak stomach, don’t dig further.

Not entirely correct. A lot of Latin American countries do it all the time.

Most western countries agree that the concept of ‘intellectual property’ is a good thing and afford protection, or else society disincentivizes innovation due to game theoretic tragedy of the commons-type reasons.

And thus there is a sell-by date on capitalism.

Copyright law is fairly universal, so while stealing data/info from another company may not be illegal (depending on jurisdiction) copyright laws are pretty universal.