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noname2200 on 23 March 2011
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Mr Khan said:
noname2200 said:
Mr Khan said:

Have we even settled on which district attorney would actually have the right to prosecute, based on Sony's tomfoolery?


I assume it would be the jurisdiction where he resides.  There might be something that defeats that, but I can't think of what it would be.

You'd figure the jurisdiction of the civil suit (which Sony has been fighting to have moved to California) would also be the one of the criminal, so the DA in, say, Fresno, would be on alert.

Actually, that's not necessarily the case.  Not only has this case not yet conclusively established that CA is the proper venue (and I'll be damned if I can figure out why it should be), but if venue is established in CA based on the Terms of Service it would do the government little good, since the ToS only tries to establish jurisdiction for Sony. 

If venue is established in some other manner, the precedent would also do a hell of a lot to expand the reach of a state's criminal reach, to the point where I have a hard time seeing what exactly is protected by the Constitution.

Edited for poor word choice.