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Transcript of Benjamin Duranske's Connecting the Dots on Legal Issues and The Grid
I originally presented this at Metanomics, Aug. 4, 2008 as "Connecting the Dots" after the show featuring IBM’s Zha Ewry and Linden Lab’s Zero Linden.
The biggest legal impact of “the grid” is that local laws will govern. Want to run a casino? Drop a server in Antigua. But that’s the easy part. As [IBM’s] Zha [Ewry] and [Linden Lab’s] Zero [Linden] noted, content export is hard, technically. It’s also hard legally. And make no mistake, content export is coming, even though it’s not in the beta. The marketplace will demand it.
