Chambers wrote:
> How was the USA able to arrest people in foreign countries?

Well, the guy in Aruba (or wherever it was) was "invited" to talk to the FBI 
about the problem, and he was foolish enough to actually show up in Miami. 
Of course, he hadn't broken any laws in the USA, but we enforced it anyway.

The guys in England got arrested in Germany (or vice versa, I forget which) 
when they visited, too.

So, basically, they weren't arrested in the foreign country, but they were 
either arrested when they visited or they were deported by their local 
government for doing things that weren't crimes where they were doing them.

Interestingly, the guy in Aruba argued to the WTO that it was restraint of 
trade, since the USA allowed online gambling if you were in the USA. (i.e., 
in much the same way that Kentucky allows online gambling but only if your 
business is also in Kentucky.) His proposed solution was that Aruba gets to 
ignore copyright.  You can imagine what a s__tstorm that started. :-)

Google for 'online gambling arrests' for the ugly details.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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