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There is the idea of universal jurisdiction for certain crimes, but it's usually stuff like genocide and really nasty stuff, not copyright infringement. https:
by roywiggins 9y ago
There is the idea of universal jurisdiction for certain crimes, but it's usually stuff like genocide and really nasty stuff, not copyright infringement.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction
- barry-cotter 9y agoUniversal jurisdiction only applies if you lose a war. Winning makes you immune, like Kissinger, Bush, Obama, Reagan, the Clinton’s, Putin.
- rphlx 9y agoNit: Kissinger was actually tried as a war criminal in Spain under the principal of universal jurisdiction. Assuming he did not visit Spain he was immune to actual punishment, of course, but "winning" did not make him immune to being tried under that legal principal.
- barry-cotter 9y agoThat’s cool. I think I’ll try Tony Blair as a war criminal tomorrow in my bedroom. It’ll have the same practical effect.
- gowld 9y agoThat's how sovereignty works. You can enforce laws in territory you control.
- rphlx 9y agoYes - Israel used this rather famously on ex-Nazis that they "extralegally imported" from around the world, even though a) the accused was not an Israeli citizen, b) none of the victims were Israeli citizens at the time of the crime, c) the crimes did not occur on Israeli territory. In most other cases those would be major jurisdictional issues.