The "cyberspace" falacy

["Craig Wright" <cwright () bdosyd com au>]

Hello,

There is common conception (attractive to techies and idealists) [1] that laws of the physical world do not translate 
to the Internet and that the internet is “a seamless global-economic zone, borderless and un-regulatable”. 

“The problem with cyberspace is that its constituent elements, the human and corporate actors and computing and 
communications equipment through which the transaction is effected, all have a real-world existence and are located in 
one or more physical world jurisdictions” [2].

National laws and maxims apply as nations may claim jurisdiction in regards to either the source, the destination, the 
path of the traffic, the physical location of the person, the physical location of the systems or any other measure 
that they may deem to inpact their sovereignty in respect of jurisdictional action. 

Regards,

Craig

 

[1]       Barlow, John Perry (1966) “Thinking Globally, Acting Llocally” collections are available from www.eff.org

[2]       Reed, Chris (2004) “Internet Law, Text and Materials”, 2nd Ed. Law in Context, Cambridge University Press


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