Legal jurisdiction of domain name

[josh4]

I was wondering how a website is determined to be under the law of any particular country. Say for example a website's domain name is registered in France, the servers are in India, and its operated/managed from the United States. If the website ever got into legal trouble which laws of what countries would it be subject to?

[Webwork]

An answer to this question, which calls into questions issues of jurisdiction and conflicts of law, is light years beyond the competency of this forum. There are entire books and law school courses about the subject matter of jurisdiction and conflicts of law.

Without a great deal of factual information and multi-national legal expert input any answer to your question would be nothing but misleading, useless fluff.

Hope I haven't put too fine a point on it. It's actually a good question and one that comes up many times in many people minds.

My impulse is to lock the thread before the fluff starts to pile up. However, if you have a mind for it and take it for what it's worth, . . . well . . let's see where it goes.

[josh4]

Thanks for the reply. I understand your point, which is a valid and necessary point <snip>. Obviously no body here is going to have the legal expertise to give the qualified answer and every opinion is just that - all of which should be taken with a grain of salt. <snip> I'm looking forward to read what others think of the original topic.

[edited by: Webwork at 3:44 am (utc) on Mar. 18, 2007]
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[rocker]

Say for example a website's domain name is registered in France, the servers are in India, and its operated/managed from the United States.

Webwork is right this is out of our realm.

However, if I had to choose, I would say the United States.

I would think that the registrar in France and the host in India have disclaimers saying they are not responsible for your actions.