At 13:24 -0400 2001.08.30, Dave Sill wrote:
>Chris Nandor <yahoo@...> wrote:
>
>>He was in the United States. It is a bad law, but that doesn't change the
>>fact that he was in the U.S. If I broke Russian law, I probably wouldn't
>>go to Russia.
>
>How could he have broken a U.S. law while he was in Russia? If
>nosepicking is illegal in Denmark, does that mean I could be arrested
>if I ever go there--even if I never picked my nose is there?

If I steal Russian government secrets while I am in the United States, does
that mean they have no grounds to arrest me if I ever go there?

His actions, in the eyes of U.S. law, were against an entity protected by
U.S. law. Therefore, he is subject to U.S. law. This is nothing new, it
is not a surprise, it is not earth-shattering or worthy of significant
note. This is how countries do things.

Focus on the law itself being bad, not the fact that someone who broke it
wasn't in the country when he broke it (which is debatable anyway, since
the act of copyright violation is not just in the creation of the work in
question, but in the distribution of it as well (among other things), and
he was distributing it while in the U.S.).

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