Jay Converse wrote:
On 2/8/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/8/06, Jay Converse supermo0@gmail.com wrote:
If the servers are hosted in the US, wouldn't that be another reason to do
it? IANAL, but I thought that servers hosted in a country are bound to the
laws of that country, no matter where the users come from.
It doesn't make much sense to me. By all means enforce US copyright laws. But banning Chinese users because they profess to breaking US laws? Nonsensical.
I was thinking more along the lines of being sued because we "facilitated" drug users in some way, not because they said they smoked weed.
If you follow the same argument it would be wrong to facilitate pedophilia, but one could still say that he is a pedophile.
The reasons for doing something should go beyond fear of punishment or of being sued. Being consistent with one's own personal ethical standards is far more important.
Ec