From: "Dave Ings" 

As a Canadian (i.e. not an American!) what I find most interesting about
this, and this type of story, is the legal extra-territoriality that is
implicit (maybe explicit) in these judgments. It's happening a lot these
days, and I doubt we have seen the end of it.

I also find it interesting that the US media rarely comments overtly on
this angle, except as a simple matter of stating the facts (e.g. "the
hackers live in Sweden and Canada). No one seems to find it odd, or if they
do they are silent about it, that a Boston judge would try to order
Canadians and Swedes around.

This has been an on again off again sore spot up here for years, and we
seem to be entering a new era where US judges believe that their judgments
should carry weight around the world.

(P.S. This sort of attitude of not limited to US bureaucracies: Several
Western nations, including Canada, have passed laws making it illegal for
their citizens to sexually exploit minors in foreign countries (such as
Thailand). Well motivated though this may be, I find this equally offensive
... not to mention hypocrisy inducing the next time a Western nation
complains about US behavior.)
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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

"Randy Holcomb"  wrote in message
news:38d52aad{at}w3.nls.net...
> (from Politech:)
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> Mattel's attorneys have sent me a subpoena. Mattel, which sells
> CyberPatrol, has a problem: It wants to know exactly who's been
downloading
> a program that reveals CyberPatrol's list of off-limits web sites.
>
> Now, I never mirrored this "cphack" utility. But I did post
the addresses
> of mirror sites to the politech list and the politechbot.com web site --
> and that information source seems to be what attorney Irwin Schwartz is
> worried about. Schwartz copied system administrators at MIT, which is
where
> the list lives.
>

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