From: Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 21:10:38 -0800 (PST)
To: Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: New rules for Internet sales to CA buyers
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Ian Goldberg wrote:
 
> 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?

  Ignorance is no excuse for violating the law.  This is a standard
legal
principle which can be loosely translated as, "It's not 'our' problem
that you're not psychic, sucker."