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Originally Posted by minusonebit
There are plenty of secure places to put a server. But there was only one place that you can put a server and host absoultely anything on it (except kiddie porn and spam) and the US government would be powerless to stop you. From such a server, I would be free to host the most poltically repugnant items and violate trademarks and infringe patents at will and no one could stop me without an international incident. One of my ideas is to create and sell a super encrypted chat service the logs of which would be supbena proof.
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AH
- That covers different critera and suppose really means checking out each item.
OK... Not that I'm advocating anything here
Top of the list item would appear to be trademark/copyright violation. Not all countries subscribe to international copyrights, others do, but in practice, dismiss them. Can't say specific countries off the top of my head, but there is a large choice and would need checking out the small print.
Political stuff is also not going to be much of a problem in these countries - they don't give a shit about external politics, but sure, would not stand for CP type stuff.
There is also a very strong case for one or more corps to be put in place in certain jurisdictions to be the legal owners of websites. Someone want to sue the corp - hard luck, it won't happen. It is a criminal offense to divulge data on a corp if that was known, but in reality - it is not known to any govt official. (The justice system permits the judiciary to form corps and pass them on - but the new "owners" are not known and the judiciary has immunity from future action of any new owner/s, so they have no problem with this.)
Main factor in the bullet-proofing is probably personal - ie.. what country are you a citizen of? Does that country expect adherence to it's laws even tho you may not be resident there? Is there any point in time where you would be obliged to file any paperwork to the "home country" while resident in another jurisdiction? Bottom line - if the event ever arose where the corp barrier ever was penetrated - could that country of citizenship instigate legal action on a personal basis?
Basically, if you are not a US citizen, have no hosting or business activities in the US and not resident in the US - you are not subject to any US domestic laws. Sure, copyright infrigement is a candidate and same would apply over all countries who did ratify copyright/trademark treaties - so hence the need to be operating from a country which does not.
Just some thoughts
