> Didn't America actually start this trend back in the 1790s or early 1800s? I
> remember in high school we were taught the case but I don't remember it well
> now. Something about a British person who tortured captured American
> sailors, and then decades later the same British guy was found living in
> America, and one of the sailors wanted to prosecute him, though the crime
> had happened in another country? And the Supreme Court said okay?
The US definitely is unique in a few attitudes. First, US citizens can be prosecuted for breaking a US law even when outside the US. And secondly, and most amazingly, the US prosecutes non-citizens for breaking US laws in another country. Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian, was arrested by the FBI for violating the DMCA, even though the software that is alledgedly illegal was made and sold OUTSIDE THE US in Russia.
Matt
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