[9213] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
International Enforcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Wed Dec 22 08:23:14 1993
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1993 10:17:22 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Paul Robinson's message of Tue, 21 Dec 1993 05:49:41 -0500 (EST) <01.1993Dec21.05h49m32s.PAUL-c100000-c100000@TDR.COM>
>Or let's take another case. A Canadian judge has prohibited distribution
>of any information about a particular murder case that happened there.
>Because his edicts have no effect in the U.S., the Buffalo News has run a
>full coverage of the story; people bring copies of the paper with
>them into Canada are having them confiscated at the border.
>
>Now, if someone in the U.S. posts messages about that case onto a newsgroup
>that is distributed into Canada, is a crime committed? Is the person who
>posts the messages (where it is legal to do so) committing a crime in
>Canada? Is the person who reads the messages committing a crime? Both?
>Neither?
How about the people who run the border sites that import the post
into Canada? It's analogous: in the hardcopy case, it's the people
that import the papers that get in trouble.
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