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Question regarding law and the internet

phill106 · 2011-03-22 10:34:40

This may be an obvious question, but if you are buying for instance software from a company based in another country, how do you persue a legal issue? What would be the juristiction? Say for example I have purchased software with a lifetime license a few years ago for a video game. The game itself would have been updated a…

22-03-2011 10:34am

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phill106

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This may be an obvious question, but if you are buying for instance software from a company based in another country, how do you persue a legal issue?
What would be the juristiction?
Say for example I have purchased software with a lifetime license a few years ago for a video game. The game itself would have been updated a few times, and then the software which i purchased would be updated along with it.
Continuing this hypothesis, imagine the game recently updated to a newer version, and now the software company is charging lifetime license holders an upgrade fee.

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#2 22-03-2011 7:22pm

Tom Young

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Check the contract and small print. It is more than likely in there somewhere - State of ....... Delaware!? Jurisdiction issues arise all the time in the EU and farther afield. Turns on the issues in hand, as you say hypothetically speaking!

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