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Internet Domains and Trademarks
I have owned a domain in the U.S. for last sixteen years. A foreign entity, who started operations in their country of origin (in Europe), filed a conflicting trademark in their own country in the 70'...
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Is it legal to use Web crawler for data gathering?
I live in Uk, I am programmer and I have built a personal system that goes to some foreign housing web sites and extracts data from adverts going add by add (using crawler/scraper/web spider), I then ...
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Which country's laws apply to buying/selling illegal items? Buyer, seller or owner of the service?
Assuming user A (in country I) sells stolen virtual accounts to the user B (in country II) on the darknet market using service owned by user C (in country III) which is hosted on the web server (...
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What if a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) breaks the law?
A DAO is a decentralized organization, typically powered by cryptography. It works much like a business, but without borders. Although a DAO typically receives instructions from its stockholders, it ...
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Does merely serving content alone constitute "operating" in the EU and so should every website be compliant with the EU Cookie Law?
I was wondering if all websites in the world need to be compliant with the EU Cookie Law.
For example a company website of a US company, hosted in the US but serving visitors in the EU.
Also, does ...
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Which laws apply on the world wide web?
This might be a very widely scoped question. I suspect by using common sense, that each country has different laws that might apply on internet use in that specific country.
But nevertheless, I'm ...
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Is my lyrics searching program illegal?
I have developed a program that scans your media folder, finds the lyrics of each song online and saves them.
To do this, my program manages to find the website where the lyrics is posted (I use ...
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Paypal chargebacks
I hope this is the right place to ask this kind of question!
I am a videogame streamer on twitch.tv. It is pretty common to have a so called donation button there. It is a button where you can support ...
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Whatsapp blocked by justice
Here in Brazil we have this case: justice has asked Facebook for some data from a drug dealer whatsapp account. Facebook denied. Now, justice has blocked Whatsapp service in all the country as a ...
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Legal basis for distancing from internet services
Our private team of gamers has a small gaming community. In order to increase our reach of people and to let our community grow, we do provide some users with free Minecraft servers, as well as ...
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Where in the Protect America Act is it stated that the NSA can monitor all electronic communication?
There is a statement that I have heard floating around regarding the Protect America Act (2007) https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/s1927/text and the powers it grants to the NSA (National ...
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Returning goods bought online in Poland as foreigner
I am a Czech national living just at the Polish border. I want to buy a laptop online at Polish online store called Morele.net. The store offers the goods to be sent to a Polish post office for pickup ...
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What are the liabilities of inadvertently copying and storing illegal pornography?
I'm a software developer who has been working on a yet-to-be released content filtering application. One of the filtering categories is of course pornography, and once upon a time I decided I was ...
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Can a foreign company be charged fees or taxes if their website is hosted in the US?
I am wondering if a foreign company be obliged to pay fees or taxes if its website is hosted and served by servers located on US ground?
Does it matter if monetary transactions are made on that ...
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Sexting and age
This question is about sexting (a person sending a sexually explicit image of themself to a recipient by electronic means).
When can the recipient get in trouble with the law if the person sending ...
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