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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 4967062" data-attributes="member: 2303">it is quite possible that the defendant agreed to this settlement, with the hidden condition that they would not actually have to pay anything. This seems to make an example while being a deal the defendant could easily agree with. Sadly, it might also stand as a model for later court cases, so in giving up their own cases, these defendants could blow the case for others in their wake.If this applies to that Polish guy who posted here about being sued by WotC, I feel it is a manifestation of a bigger problem; how the Internet suddenly makes us subject to the national laws and courts of other countries, without ever visiting them. In several European countries, punitive damage for cases like this are much, much lower than in the US - yet persecuting the case in US court suddenly makes a Polish person in Poland subject to the US legal system. Another case: eBay was successfully persecuted in France for auctioning Nazi paraphernalia (WWII trophies), an act which is unlawful in France but legal in the seller's country (I believe the seller was from the US). Because eBay had offices in France, all their auctions, even the purely English-language ones, are suddenly subject to French law.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 4967062, member: 2303"] it is quite possible that the defendant agreed to this settlement, with the hidden condition that they would not actually have to pay anything. This seems to make an example while being a deal the defendant could easily agree with. Sadly, it might also stand as a model for later court cases, so in giving up their own cases, these defendants could blow the case for others in their wake. If this applies to that Polish guy who posted here about being sued by WotC, I feel it is a manifestation of a bigger problem; how the Internet suddenly makes us subject to the national laws and courts of other countries, without ever visiting them. In several European countries, punitive damage for cases like this are much, much lower than in the US - yet persecuting the case in US court suddenly makes a Polish person in Poland subject to the US legal system. Another case: eBay was successfully persecuted in France for auctioning Nazi paraphernalia (WWII trophies), an act which is unlawful in France but legal in the seller's country (I believe the seller was from the US). Because eBay had offices in France, all their auctions, even the purely English-language ones, are suddenly subject to French law. [/QUOTE]

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