Well, if Pinochet can be arrested in London, on the request of a French (or was it Spanish?) judge, over acts allegedly committed in Chile, I'd say yes. .... and don't forget the Norwegian who was arrested in Oslo for the deCSS code. Peter

---------- From: Sampo Syreeni[SMTP:decoy@iki.fi] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 5:55 PM To: Black Unicorn Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Subject: Re: DMCA has pushed me to my limit.

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Black Unicorn wrote:

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When a foreign national can be arrested for a bit of coding which was developed (I assume) outside the US and never, by his actions (I assume) hit US soil well it really is time for the DMCA to go.

On a more general level, is US law to be construed as granting personal jurisdiction over anyone on the US soil, regardless of where the actual crime was committed? I.e., if I do something wrong according to the Code, I'd better stay the hell out of US?

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy@iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front