Public International Computer Network Law Issues

This book uses two essential terms, vital to any discussion about the worldwide public international computer networks, the Internet.

One is "Pure Online" incidents, in which no physical shipment or tangible things are involved, and at least one user is an alien, that is, a non-resident or a non-national. Thus, the pre-condition is "pure online" cases with an alien as a defendant with only bit-transmission as link or connection to the forum state. This term had been used in the author's previous publications.

This book introduces a new term "Global Jurisdiction" which is characterized by a state's jurisdictional rules taken on its "wording" that reaches all alien cybernauts, thus making a Worldwide Jurisdiction involving aliens who can be anywhere in the world outside the forum state. This term must be distinguished from Universal Jurisdiction.