ElcomSoft Lawyer Says Internet Outside U.S. Law

NetRanger writes: "ElcomSoft, the company that employed Dmitry Sklyarov, has fired its opening shot, asking the court to dismiss the charges. Their argument: since the Russian company is based on the Internet, it is outside the jurisdiction of the DMCA. This is rather interesting if it holds up, because it would set a precedent which would allow other countries to tell the DMCA to just go away. If not, ElcomSoft could be out $2.25 million dollars, and the USA could find itself cold-shouldered by a lot of countries with less draconian copyright laws." Wired has another story.

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Let's become highway robbers!

[Pig Hogger]

Since highways are not in the land of the US (they are used to move vehicles, so it's not possible to build things on them nor plant crops on them - things you normally do on land), it is therefore legal to arbitrarly commandeer vehicles and strip them of their content and/or kill/rape their occupants.

Sheeesh!

That stupid notion that the internet is not a place within countries is merely an entrepreneur wet dream; it is time for the Nation-States to really show who's the boss around here..., and have the entrepreneurs follow the law and pay the taxes that are due.