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Anyone using the internet risks being sued far away from the jurisdictional boundaries of that person's normal behaviors. At least, that's what I think. Here's a professor who's been writing about this. He says the US is asserting jurisdiction over controversies that lie well outside the scope of US law, if you continued to apply old standards. Here's his conclusion:
"The collective result of these cases is that the ACPA now covers every dot-com domain, regardless of where it was registered, when it was registered, or what a foreign court has to say about it. While U.S. free speech interests may fret about the effect of foreign decisions involving the Internet, they would do well to consider the impact of U.S. legislation on courts and legislatures worldwide. With the extra-territorial applicability of laws such as the ACPA, judges and policy makers now find themselves unable to establish their own laws and policies since the U.S. has in effect done it for them."
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