Re: LAW: the plot thickens

From: riel@nl.linux.org
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 11:01:10 MDT


On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 Artillo5@cs.com wrote:

> It sounds to me like if this ruling goes through, they are going to try
> to impose US copyright laws upon the rest of the world, which is an
> unbelieveably ballsy move IMHO.

This has been happening for a few years already. One of the
defendants in the California DeCSS law suit is a German resident
who has never been in the US.

What's even more interesting in that case is that it's a trade
secret case, about something which clearly isn't a secret any
more...

regards,

Rik

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