[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: [governance] Re: [Wsis-pct] HR 4077 (was Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] FBI Seizes Indymedia Servers in the UK)

[gus]

At 21:44 11/10/2004, Taran Rampersad wrote:
>They can't enforce these laws on foreigners? Don't forget just last year
>an Australian court was the court chosen for a libel case for a company
>in the U.S. which had allegedly slandered an Australian resident; I
>don't have the details at my fingertips but this is a real case. It's
>also what people involved in law call a 'precedent'.

Yes, this was the Dow Jones case.  And there have been a number of court 
cases in many countries that have led to extra-jurisdictional reach of 
national law.

C.f. <http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,56793,00.html>

Keep well...

gus.

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Gus Hosein
http://is.lse.ac.uk/staff/hosein and
http://www.privacyinternational.org/
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