From: iang@cs.berkeley.edu (Ian Goldberg)
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 09:51:02 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: New rules for Internet sales to CA buyers
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970102144026.0069bc00@mail.io.com>
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In article <3.0.32.19970102144026.0069bc00@mail.io.com>,
Greg Broiles  <gbroiles@netbox.com> wrote:
>
>The following subsection of California Business & Professions Code section
>17538 took effect 1/1/97 and may be of interest to people following state
>attempts to regulate net sales:
>
>[...]
>   (d) A vendor conducting business through the Internet or any other
>electronic means of communication shall do  all of the following
>when the transaction involves a buyer located in California:
[snip]
>
>Legislative history can be found at
>
><http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_3320&sess=PREV&h
>ouse=B>
>


So is this saying that a merchant _anywhere in the world_ can be prosecuted
under California law if someone in California goes to their web page,
and the web page doesn't satisfy the requirements (which I snipped)?

How is a merchant in, say, Finland, supposed to know that this law (or others
like it in any city, state, or country in the world) exists?

   - Ian 

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