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Originally Posted by damian2001
The internet obviously makes that impossible to enforce. Sitting here in my living room in the UK I cant break US laws, even if I tried.
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You can and would be if you sell products to US customers within US borders while not complying with US/UK trade laws and sanctions or if your product did not comply with US law.
I guess it all boils down to the following:
Where exactly is the point of sale in an international ecommerce transaction involving no tangible products -- purchase locale, isp locale, hosting provider locale, payment processor locale, or locale of the media company?
According to the 2257 revision -- the governments contention is the point of sale (as it pertains to US customers purchasing within the US borders) is the US and therefore you are operating as an importer of goods and therefore bound by US law.
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Originally Posted by damian2001
I am worried about how this will affect the industry as a whole.... but whatever I do I wont be worried about a knock on the door from the FBI.
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Obviously you shouldn't be.
Something tells me that that wouldn't fly internationally and that sellers outside the US that sell to US citizens and never set foot in the US would have very little to worry about.