On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:36:16 CDT, Stephen Sprunk said: > If eBay doesn't exist (legally speaking) in Germany, tough luck. Forcing > German ISPs to block the content, however, would be doable. Unfortunately, I think eBay does have a German subsidiary.. > Next, are we to force the post to read all mail coming into Germany to make > sure there's no mail-order Nazi memorabilia catalogs? Would doing so be > legal? If legal, would it be feasible? I believe the German postal service already has this authority. Whether it's legal depends on what the German courts decide. > The person committing that "crime" is not within the jurisdiction of the > other country, and thus extradition is not possible. If so, Hugh Hefner and > Larry Flynt would have been executed in the Middle East decades ago. He is if both countries have ratified the Conventions on Cybercrime treaty. Beware, the US is already a signatory... > >> Assuming the Swedes have a law against hacking, they can > >> extradite the suspect from New Zealand under existing > >> treaties. A New World Order is not necessary. > > > Not if Korea doesn't have a law against hacking, or there is no > > cooperation from the Korean end to produce evidence that the > > hacker was actually in New Zealand. > > So what do you propose? Forcing the sovereign government of Korea to adopt No, what I said was that you won't be able to extradite without doing something similar. You'll have to judge for yourself whether you want your country to give up that ability... > a law for your benefit? Want to outlaw prostitution, gambling, and drugs > worldwide while you're at it? And llamas too. Be careful what you wish for: http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/EN/WhatYouWant.asp?NT=185 as you may get it: http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZD3WRL5LC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0 /Valdis
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