[hyprCoin]

I'm not in the EU but must comply to their regulation.

The internet at it's base abstraction is a borderless medium without regard to locality. Imposing legislation by user region is a dangerous precedent as each region can now impose fee-seeking legislation on internet companies.

[jimnotgym]

So what do you propose no laws at all for the internet? Or each jurisdiction makes orts own law? In which case would the US mind getting the hell back inside it's borders and stop trying to extradite British teenagers who alledgedly broke some 'hacking' law?

Sounds like Team America again.

The government's of the world are struggling with internet jurisdiction issues, currently the US is taking the stance that any act against their companies is a US matter, whereas the EU is looking at abuse of its citizens is an EU matter. Weaker states have no recourse at all. I find it hard to judge that the US stance is ethically better than the EU's

[hyprCoin]

Any solutions should come from first level engineering principles not lawyers and politicians. I don't care if it's US prosecuting a kid for hacking, companies storing and losing information on people or a space shuttle exploding. The problem lies in the failure of software and the solution should be in software.