U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case

Re:U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case by rayiner on Monday May 06, 2013 @10:35AM (#5662607)

Are you targeting your activities in Ireland or India or Israel?

You can't just read out the "target people in the country/have a major impact on people in the country." If you're operating say a financial services website, and specifically allow users from Ireland to sign up, or advertise to users in Ireland, should you be surprised if you have to abide by Irish banking laws?

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Re:U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case by danenania on Monday May 06, 2013 @12:19PM (#5663125)

A large portion of what is published on the public internet in the west is likely breaking conservative speech and obscenity laws in dozens of other countries.

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Re:U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case by nwh on Monday May 06, 2013 @10:48AM (#5662683)

Nope, bu I run a website, people visit from all over the world on a daily bases.

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Re:U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case by rayiner on Monday May 06, 2013 @01:07PM (#5663400)

There is a legal (and practical!) difference between simply making something available that people from different countries might might access and purposefully targeting a particular country. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlovich_v._Superior_Court. This is in the context of personal jurisdiction between sovereign U.S. states, but the principle in the international context is the same.

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Re:U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case by nwh on Monday May 06, 2013 @02:00PM (#5663726)

Did megaupload ever "target" US users?

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Re:U.S. Government Fears End of Megaupload Case by tptacek on Monday May 06, 2013 @07:23PM (#5665414)

Yes. They had colos on the east and west coasts, and ran AdSense ads.

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