Re: The Macquarie Bank Case thrown out

On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Darrell Panethiere <darrell.panethiere[_at_]ifpi.org> wrote:
>
> Not only is it not "reasonably apparent" that works published on
> the Internet are available worldwide, that postulate is simply wrong.
> As a factual matter, it is possible to limit territorially the reach
> of one's Internet postings and publishers who fail to do so have
> found themselves suffering the consequences of this in other courts.
> The Chinese and Singaporean governments have led the way in
> demonstrating how efficient territorial limits can be, but we also
> have the very clear example of Compuserve Germany which, based on the
> news reports, seems to have developed technology to limit Internet
> postings into and out of a single province (Bavaria) in order to
> comply with court orders.

Could you provide some further technical information or references, possibly some URL's, on how "it is possible to limit territorially the reach of one's Internet postings"? I assume that you are not speaking of territorial blocking in the receiving territory because you speak of this in China, Singapore and Germany.

If my memory serves well, the German situation involved Compuserve, and the result may have been a voluntary internal "fix" by Compuserve. More detail on the "receiving" end technology would also be appreciated.

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