Re:Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign registrar
by ubernostrum on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @05:58PM
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Actually...
If you are in one country, and are clearly and unambiguously doing business with someone in another country -- with written agreements, money/goods/etc. transferring -- then it's simply not a new idea that you may end up subject in some way to the laws of that other country. It also isn't a particularly scary idea.
The idea that "on the internet" is some sort of magical extra-jurisdictional space is the new and scary idea.
If you are in one country, and are clearly and unambiguously doing business with someone in another country -- with written agreements, money/goods/etc. transferring -- then it's simply not a new idea that you may end up subject in some way to the laws of that other country. It also isn't a particularly scary idea.
The idea that "on the internet" is some sort of magical extra-jurisdictional space is the new and scary idea.