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I dont mean it 100% literally and dont really write my posts to be semantically perfect and IANAL, so I hope they arent interpreted to be anything more than they are. The hard part is defining "on US soil," because with the internet companies have a much further reach than just their home base.

For the poker sites, they do not [and did not] have a physical presence in the US, but still involve US citizens in their business and it was argued that US banks were involved in money laundering and other crimes that took place "on US soil." So it is pretty similar to the megaupload case; if you dance around the word of the law and profit from US customers, the US gov't will likely pursue you if you are a big enough target



But the US did not order anyone to be arrested abroad or extradite anyone did they? They arrested one of the developers when he deplaned in Las Vegas.

These cases are not all the same. Different criminal laws are being violated, by people in different places, involving different US-based businesses.




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