European Arrest Warrant and publishing/distributing on the internet

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From: Andrew Marlow <apm35@student.open.ac.uk>

> You must be joking. The internet is *global* but the governments of the
> world have not fully realised this yet. Give it another decade or so. In
> the meantime what you will see is more of what we already have: each
> government passes its own laws about the internet without regard to the
> fact that it is global. Britain will not be any different.

<cynic>
Isn't the real issue that MP's don't publish anything possibly
controversial (or even interesting) on the net ?  Anything can
and will be made illegal except what they do.
</cynic>

On a related subject slashdot recently said that a US court had decided
date of publication was the date you put something on your website not
the date somebody else reads it.

Found by search for "statute limitations":
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/04/1453238&tid=123