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

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

I think the high seas (aka "international waters") would be a good model.

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-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Bauer [mailto:jfbauer@comcast.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:42 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: [dvd-discuss] Internet: an independent country?
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jim Bauer, jfbauer@comcast.net
>