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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes you can. People in the UK get prosecuted for (for example) going to Thailand and having underage sex with children, even though that is not illegal in Thailand but is illegal in the UK.
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Yes Harry, but that offence is agreed by the country in which the offender is residence to be a criminal offence. In the case in discussion, the person's country of residence does not have a legislation which makes his actions illegal, he was arrested in the US after giving a lecture in regard to circumventing DRM, but not actually committing any criminal offence.
There is a huge difference in the two examples and this individual should never have been behind bars in the US.
Karen