[MUD-Dev] [OT] Taking things too far.

[John Buehler]

Dave Rickey writes:
> From: F. Randall Farmer <randy.farmer at pobox.com>

>> I hate to be the one who breaks the news, but at least in
>> California, threatening to kill someone can get you arrested for
>> the following crime: "Threatening a Terrorist Act" --- a
>> felony. That San Diego kid got charged with it, as I recall (it
>> might have been a different kid.)

> This does, of course, raise the perennial Internet jurisdictional
> question: If a player in New York threatens a player in Oregon
> inside of a game whose servers are in California, where exactly did
> the threat occur?  What if all of them are in California?  What if
> the player being threatened is, but the one making the threat is in
> Mexico or vice versa (just over the border in Baja, close enough it
> is physically possible to carry out the threat)?

Amateur opinion: offenses are between individuals.  If I threaten you
over the phone and the phone lines pass through 8 different states,
does it matter?  If there's a satellite involved, is it a space-bound
offense?  Certainly not.

J

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