Explainer: How can the US seize a Hong Kong site like Megaupload?

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jan 21, 2012 11:16 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Nate Anderson
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The Megaupload takedown, and the arrest of its key employees, might seem to vindicate late 1990s worries about the Internet and jurisdiction. Does putting a site on the 'Net, though it might be hosted anywhere in the world, subject you simultaneously to the laws of every country on earth? Why would Megaupload, based in Hong Kong, be subject to US copyright laws and to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act?

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