Judge Tosses AOL Spammer Lawsuit Over Jurisdiction Issue
from the jurisdiction-questions dept
Details are sketchy on this one, but it sounds like a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by AOL against some spammers because the judge claims not to have jurisdiction over the spammers. The spammers are in Florida, but AOL (and the court) are in Virginia. Once again, the question of jurisdiction online becomes important. Should the spammers be liable in Virginia because their emails hit AOL's machines (based in Virginia) or should it be filed in a Florida court?
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The internet as its own space?
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mail fraud. Spam is mass-marketing, not fraud.
True, the goods/services offered are often
some sort of scam, but the defining characteristic
of spam is that it is mass-emailed indiscriminately.
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Re: The internet as its own space?
1) Who gets to be the judges? The juries? Different people from different areas can have very different cultural biases that make determining law problematic on the net.
2) No matter what you do, there's always infrastructure, court cases will not likely be completely electronic...for something serious people will demand "live" attendence...where should this be? In the offender's base area? In the victim's? In a neutral area?
Don't get me wrong...I think its a great idea...but it has its own set of problems some of which are related to the problems faced now by courts all over the world.
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