Because some American courts like to think they have jurisdiction everywhere as long as there's a US entity involved

The Kim Dotcom case proves that some courts will ignore nation borders altogether.

This is such a far departure from where I was hoping the Internet would look like growing up. Makes me sad political borders are now viewed as a feature.

The internet can't just paper over the fact that there are fundamental differences on how people do things across the world.

The internet was supposed to be the last free land where nerds could be able to create without worrying which part of the floor is lava.

And it would have stayed that way if only nerds would have used it.

Now it's used by regular people, too. And our lives are much richer because regular people use it, too.

But that means that real life rules now apply.

People ruin everything. Eternal whenever is upon us.

That has nothing todo with the internet but with US law.

BTW it was always like that, want to study the human-body in the middle-ages? Go to arabia, in Europe you get burned alive.

It's a big feature for users who value freedom of speech.

It's laughable that a guy from the EU doesn't get it - their freedom of speech is shit.

This is nothing to do with freedom of speech; the issue is differing laws on data privacy between the EU and US (and repeated failure of Safe Harbour and other regulatory attempts to paper over the cracks).

> It's a big feature for users who value freedom of speech.

That would be Iceland then, NOT the US.

Rackspace, Indymedia, 2004. Ancient precedent by now.