-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <3.0.32.19970102144026.0069bc00@mail.io.com>, Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com> wrote:
The following subsection of California Business & Professions Code section 17538 took effect 1/1/97 and may be of interest to people following state attempts to regulate net sales:
[...] (d) A vendor conducting business through the Internet or any other electronic means of communication shall do all of the following when the transaction involves a buyer located in California:
[snip]
Legislative history can be found at
<http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_3320&sess=PREV&h ouse=B>
So is this saying that a merchant _anywhere in the world_ can be prosecuted under California law if someone in California goes to their web page, and the web page doesn't satisfy the requirements (which I snipped)? How is a merchant in, say, Finland, supposed to know that this law (or others like it in any city, state, or country in the world) exists? - Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMs6YZEZRiTErSPb1AQEfbQQAkTjheiJ7iX0auSFWzthQ9zsgMQWmrSok 7ETe3D20BhIC11Rqkb6hMm8zwk8j4n+zXk1I6PlGAiRVS8LHlEEoxBhkMCHCzEEO J0CNjURByuXVIzvEuaKm9VE6ymtOw+U+lHRpPerKt5nrRZM+Wg2ccPhqG5WBhrhJ hJT8jUYto3Q= =zyI9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----