[163348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Canadian Hosting Providers - how do you handle copyright and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Thu Jun 6 15:03:31 2013
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:01:15 -0700
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <AAA00F0B-3EEE-47FA-B6EE-C66F6DBFCF1C@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/6/2013 11:07 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 22:30 , Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6/5/2013 4:40 PM, Nick Khamis wrote:
>>> On 6/5/13, Sameer Khosla <skhosla@neutraldata.com> wrote:
>>>> My personal favorite is the number of notices that we receive as DMCA
>>>> takedown notices, citing the specific laws.
>>>>
>>> I'm not sure US copyright laws even apply to us here in Canada?
>>> What countries have no internet laws?
>>>
>>> N.
>>>
>>>
>> US laws apply where ever the US says they apply.
>>
> How do you figure that?
A government can say anything it wants to
>
> The US power to enforce US law is limited to:
>
> 1. US Citizens (pretty much wherever they are, unfortunately)
> 2. Things that happen within the borders of the united states
> 3. Transactions involving entities within the borders of the united states or
> citizens of the US.
>
> Beyond that, their power is supposed to be pretty limited.
Limited by who?
A government can pass any law that it wants to and apply it to anyone.
It then becomes a question of how it enforces that law and that is
limited by its ability to project power. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared
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