[pp.int.general] MegaUpload raided, shut down on request of US authorities

[Pirat@LennStar.de]

No, copyright is an english invention to a) get a book monopoly and with
it money for the printers and b) easy censorship method for the crown
via the book printers.

Hasn't changed much since then ;)

I didn't know the Bern Traty included the provision for post services to
not make a service that could be used to send illegal copies of books or
for banks to not store illegal copies of books in their vaults.


LennStar

Am 23.01.2012 16:50, schrieb Christian Hufgard:
> On 23.01.2012 08:04, Richard Stallman wrote:
>>     > Seriously, why should it matter?  If a company operating in another country
>>     > does a kind of business that is illegal in the US, does that justify
>>     > arresting the management and trying them in the US?
>>
>>     The company operated in the US. They had a couple of hundred servers in
>>     the US and they adressed US customers. To they were acting on the us
>>     market 
>>
>> Why should that matter?
> 
> Because that's the way is, the world works... If you want to run a
> business on a certain market, you have to stick to the law at that
> market, change the laws or break if. If you decide to break it, you have
> to deal with the consequences.
> 
>> 	   and had to care for US law.
>>
>> You've changed the topic from how things should be, to what power the
>> US claims.
> 
> Oh, I did not know that copyright and similar laws exist only in the
> USA. The bern treaty is nothing the US inventing, neither is copyright.
> 
> Christian
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