Re:Huge legal win? I think not. (Score 1)

If a company based in Nevada opened a casino in Utah it would be illegal even though gambling is legal in Nevada.

But if Utah residents went to Nevada and gambled, it would not be illegal. Not even if they took their winnings (ha!) back to Utah with them.

What is at issue here, as far as juridiction is concerned, is that the US feels that it can sue Russian companies for producing and selling software over the Internet. This is completely absurd. Even the US ruled that France could not sue Yahoo for having newgroups related to nazi materials available. IIRC, The US courts ruled that even though the newgroups were illegal in France, and available to French people over the Internet, that Yahoo had no physical French presence and therefore was not subject to French laws. The only crime here is that the courts didn't make the same ruling regarding ElcomSoft.