2010/1/7 Aun Johnsen <li...@gimnechiske.org>: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:15 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2010/1/6 Aun Johnsen <li...@gimnechiske.org>: >>> We must find a procedure to avoid such lawsuits. i.e. "show us where >>> some community members have copied you and we remove the information >>> from your sources" kind of response to any claims of copyright >> >> Didn't lots of people ask SCO to show proof of their claims and the >> people that did get to see their "proof" had to sign off on NDAs? >> > > As far as I know, US is the only where they tried to prosecute > somebody who did a "digital crime" in another country, I am than > thinking of Dmitri Sklyarov who had through his work reverse > engineered adobe e-book format in order to make an e-book reader for > blind people. The "crime" was comitted in Russia, where reverse > engineering is (was?) a legimit way of industry. Can't remember how > long he was held in a California prison, but it was quite some time > before he could return to russia. He went to the states to talk on a > conference on software security. But this is getting pretty OOT >
The US did the same thing in Australia, someone was extradited to the US for something that wasn't even a crime in Australia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrinkOrDie (under Elsewhere heading) Also CIA agents are still wanted for kidnapping in Italy. http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/5/italian_prosecutor_in_case_against_cia But of course the US wouldn't hand over Americans to another country... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
