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Originally Posted by GeoffC
Just as long as you keep it across your side of the water ....
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Why would we want to do that?
"To counter such problems, officials are coalescing around several of the proposal’s likely requirements:
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Foreign-based providers that do business inside the United States must install a domestic office capable of performing intercepts."
Look at it this way - Suppose there was someone
in the US conspiring with someone
in the UK to break the law by removing DRM from an ebook?
THAT is international crime! Something
must be done.
We have a law in the US that allows for the confiscation of all your property and any assets that we can find. It's called the
RICO laws.
It was once intended to be used sparingly against organized crime in situations where they know that you are guilty of something, but just can't get the evidence. You know, people keep dying, suddenly can't remember anything, gone camping deep in the jungles of New Guinea. That kind of stuff.
Technically it must involve at least two people to be considered "organized crime". It doesn't have to be more than two, though. But that email you sent to your buddy in Biloxi, Mississippi? The one where he asked you to strip out the DRM and send it back to him? International organized crime.
"NO," you say. That can't really happen. That's a law to be used against BIG crime syndicates.
Not really. In
Unrepentant Whore: Collect Works of Scarlot Harlot we have this quote -
"My case was the first time the RICO laws were used (for prostitution (added by me))...." - page 150.
And they say that the "old west" was lawless.
