> The list could only cover a few, few universally recognized crimes, like theft, fraud, and criminal trespass. In other words: this wouldn’t work for political

> The list could only cover a few, few universally recognized crimes, like theft, fraud, and criminal trespass. In other words: this wouldn’t work for politically inflammatory speech or copyright infringement; Copyright infringment is theft for a non-negligible segment of the population (mostly the one in power). Also, I have some doubts about the 40 billion figure. most of it seems to come from "IP theft" which I would love to see defined in more precise terms. I agree with the general idea of suing phishers and spammers into oblivion. Though I guess a lot of precautions must be taken to avoid the collateral damage described above (abuse of the law for political reasons) which makes it way less simple.