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   The internet as its own space?

   

   Brandon Berg, Dec 30th, 2003 @ 4:54pm

   
   

   I really know nothing of law, but couldn't the internet be its own domain. Instead of using traditional courts why don't we setup a seperate court system to deal with it, and treat it as an entirely seperate entity. Maybe someone knows what I'm trying to say and could put it better.

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   Re: The internet as its own space?

   

   BoilerBob, Dec 31st, 2003 @ 4:56am

   
   

   How does mail fraud work? If I'm in Florida and send you a snail mail to Virginia with a scam who prosecutes? I would say that the courts should start with mail fraud as a structure.

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   Re: The internet as its own space?

   

   thecaptain, Dec 31st, 2003 @ 11:06am

   
   

   That's a great idea, but has much of the same problems.
   
   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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   Re: The internet as its own space?

   

   eeyore, Dec 31st, 2003 @ 12:25pm

   
   

   mail fraud is a federal crime so it isn't dependent on state jurisdiction.

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   Re: The internet as its own space?

   

   ttl, Jan 1st, 2004 @ 4:05pm

   
   

   However, spam is certainly not analogous to
   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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