At 2:42 PM -0400 7/21/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:
At 11:09 AM 7/21/01 -0700, David Honig wrote:
And the FBI identifies him as the copyright holder.
What would they have done if a group[1] was listed after the (C)? [1] registered corporation, anonymous coders, anonymous registered corporation (?) etc.
Your guess is as good as mine, and I'll defer to the criminal lawyers here, if there are any. My suspicion: In truly "criminal" enterprises, I suspect they'd go after the officers of the corporation. But in practice "trafficking" is a broad prohibition, and the Feds will arrest anyone involved who sets foot in the U.S.
Should be quite interesting in a tit-for-tat way when employees of certain U.S. chip companies set foot in, say, Germany. (Pace the Rambus /Infineon case, where charges and countercharges of copyright and patent infringement, even the DCMA, are flying.) --Tim May -- Timothy C. May tcmay@got.net Corralitos, California Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns