Jason Greenwood wrote:
Nope, I'm not, I'm in New Zealand (though I am also an American) and if they want to prosecute me, they need to come here to do it and PROVE I did something wrong, which there are many ways of avoiding.I don't think that's true. Many licences are qualified as restricted to the courts of the owner's country.
So you can be tried overseas in absentia and fined.
However, collecting that fine is an international event and may or may not be possible. In any case the costs of collection may well exceed the penalty. Where the copyright owner has a local branch in New Zealand, you would probably be in trouble.
Compare the recent case here in Melbourne where the Supreme Court deemed a defamation published in Barrons (USA) against Gutnik here in Melbourne to be actionable here in Melbourne. IOW, the deemed point of publication is where the download occurred, NOT the where the article was uploaded.
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