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SavX
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Posted - 2003.09.25 11:44:00 -
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Edited by: SavX on 25/09/2003 11:47:50
If your going to sue anyone, sue Microsoft, they can afford it.
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Ross
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Posted - 2003.09.25 12:02:00 -
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Edited by: SavX on 25/09/2003 11:47:50
If your going to sue anyone, sue Microsoft, they can afford it.
evil mastermind
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Toulak
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Posted - 2003.09.25 12:03:00 -
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Edited by: Toulak on 25/09/2003 12:06:58
Edited by: Toulak on 25/09/2003 12:05:01
As to the case of laws only apply in their country, this is untrue. There have been many cases where this was proved wrong with the internet.
One case is where a British website wrote a slanderous peice on an Australian buisnessman. The Australian then decided to sue the British website, the British law on slander is a lot less forgiving than the Australian law, and the British website tried to have the trial in the UK courts on the basis that the server was British and the peice was saved on that server and so Australia have no juristiction.
The Australian courts overruled this and went on with the case, the story was promptly taken off the website, and the case went ahead. They appealed but still were bound by Australian law because the claimant was Australian.
I cant remember the case name, but I do remember it from my law class, we disucussed not so long ago.
Internet law is still an unknown area for judges around the world. Once theres more cases to set precedents then we'll have a more solid "law" worldwide but until then its a blackhole area, and judges and lawyers have to tread carefully.
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agrizla
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Posted - 2003.09.25 12:26:00 -
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There's actually a precedent in UK law which almost identically mirrors what has been discussed in this thread :
About 4-5 years ago all the UK bookmakers were starting to move offshore to avoid the betting tax. There were quite a few small one-man operations that had setup too. One of them got taken to court for not having a licence to operate in the UK - after many customer complaints. Their defence was that they weren't based in the UK and hence UK law did not apply - they believed that their EULA covered them. Now here's what the case eventually came down to :
a) Is the service, or the main part of the service operated from equipment located within the UK;
b) Have any monies been paid directly to this foreign company (based in Madeira IIRC);
The answer to a) was "Yes", although the defendants tried to claim that since you authenticated with a server in Madeira that wasn't the case.
The answer to b) was "No", a third party company based in the EU had been collecting monies on their behalf.
Result - UK law did in fact apply and they got shut down (or fined - can't remember which).
Anyway it's a dumb thread and I only posted this while I was waiting for the server to come back up 
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Ross
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Posted - 2003.09.25 13:54:00 -
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Again, who would bother for a 30 quid game, and 10 quid a month fee? It's hardly big bucks.
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Racknan
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Posted - 2003.09.25 15:27:00 -
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Came looking for a good laugh, man did I get it!
10 stars for humor!!
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Ph0enix
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Posted - 2003.09.25 22:34:00 -
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you know m8, if you had spent the time you have moaning, complaining, calling your god damn US rights officer etc doing a few hours overtime you would of made double the money you lost. are you really that much of a tight arse that you would go to all this effort to get $12 back?
well thats the US for you. will bomb the middle east to the ground without a seconds thought, but if one of its god blessed citizen feels they were cheated of $12....
well Iceland better have good anti aircraft defenses, thats all i can say
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Znaei
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Posted - 2003.09.26 05:41:00 -
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Edited by: Znaei on 26/09/2003 05:43:13
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you know m8, if you had spent the time you have moaning, complaining, calling your god damn US rights officer etc doing a few hours overtime you would of made double the money you lost. are you really that much of a tight arse that you would go to all this effort to get $12 back?
well thats the US for you. will bomb the middle east to the ground without a seconds thought, but if one of its god blessed citizen feels they were cheated of $12....
well Iceland better have good anti aircraft defenses, thats all i can say
LOL. IŠve already started to dig a bunker in the backyard . Just to be on the safe side :)
Ugh, why did I reply to this stupid post, bumping it to the top  stupid, stupid, stupid
clagnuts> im drunk just come back from pirates night in spain , wtf i thought it was some eve guys getting together for a drink , turned out to be a feken real pirates show , doh |
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