ElectricAardvark opened this issue on Apr 10, 2002 ยท 100 posts
ChuckEvans posted Wed, 10 April 2002 at 7:08 PM
LadySilverMage: I certaianly don't claim to be an authority on business law in a global setting, but as an ex-holder of Amazon stock, I read the news excerpts on them regularly. Tho an American company, they had to comply with laws in their foreign places of presence. So did E-Bay. Most memerable among these was the selling of WW2 memorabilia in Germany--strictly verbotten! Both of these companies had to wrestle with code that did not allow certain things to be purchased in foreign countries while continuing to make them available in other countries. I even believe there were legal threats made if those companies continued to allow it. So, again, not saying I'm all-knowing in this field, but if Renderosity, tho operating in the US as a US entity, got unhappy scrutiny from a foreign government, I believe they would have to "knuckle under" so to speak. Or else somehow (difficult) exclude accounts from the complaining country.