Imran William Smith said on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:46:04AM +0800,:
Given significant funds, you could try hosting it in Sealand, an offshore oil platform that declared itself an
Funny, how often history repeats.
In the early days of commercial radio broadcasts, when Her Majesty's government sought to regulate transmissions from the English soil, `smart' businessess simply hired a ship, anchored about a safe distance outside the territorial waters, and transmitted merrily, un shackled by all regulations.
IIRC, to this day, you need to register your radio receivers (what we call the transistor in India) and televisions in England. Correct me if I am wrong. Even a few years back, we too had this lousy requirement, till some under-secretary decided to change the rules. Another petty IAS officer can come along and decide to revive that.
independent country, runs high security web hosting and, according to their website,
Do thay have an army? Navy? AWACS? A `shock & awe' proof military?
'Sealand currently has no regulations regarding copyright, patents,
Excellent. But the trouble is, most countries will get at its citizens if they violate domestic laws even while in foreign lands.
If I. W. Smith comes to India and does something which is an offence in Malaysia, his govt. will wait till he returns ...
Ditto for Mahesh T Pai finding some inconvenient Indian rule and deciding to visit Malaysia to get around the inconvenience.
Ultimately I believe this will happen to everything - money moves to 'offshore' financial havens, internet content moves to 'offshore' internet havens, cloning research will move to 'offshore' biotech havens...
A well known Malayalam poet penned these words:-
`Change the rules, else the rules will change you'.