Re: [dvd-discuss] Internet: an independent country?

["Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org>]

Actually the ability to access information by anyone will be subject to 
the jurisdiction of every last place on Earth.  You can already see the 
beginnings of that with the Anti-Nazi suits in Europe.




Jim Bauer <jfbauer@comcast.net>
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We all know how stupid some of the recent cases have been WRT
jurisdiction over the Internet.  If the pattern holds, everyone will
always be subject to the jurisdiction of every last place on earth at
the same time.

Has anyone pursued the idea of the Internet being "independent"?
Either as its own country (assuming one can have a country without
land), or perhaps more like how Antarctica is handled.


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Jim Bauer, jfbauer@comcast.net