Violating a country&#39;s law outside that country
<p>Assuming that a reporter from country B called Bob has somehow got a video from country A. He then puts in on a news page that is open to the whole world. Later, A citizen called Cob from Country C watches the video. There is a warning sign and a message in the video but it is written in Country A's language and Cob  doesn't understand. What consequences would Bob and Cob have? (Bob and Cob don't know each other, it is unknown if Bob understands or has read the warning. But it is known that countries B and C might have similar laws related to the warning)</p>

<p>Any country is free to decide what actions are considered to be  crimes, and what crimes are prosecuted depending on whether you perform the action in the country, outside the country, and depending on whether you are a citizen, a resident, both, or neither. They can also decide what are accepted defences in court and which are not. </p>

<p>Any other country is free to decide under which circumstances they will ever extradite someone to that first country. </p>

<p>Now you have to check the laws of the individual countries. </p>

<p>Since the question involves "intellectual property", video, and warning messages, I assume this relates to something like the FBI copyright violation notice that appears on numerous video works. If a Somali person in Somalia who knows no English sees but does not understand the warning, are they then immune to the legal consequences of copyright infringement because they have not been put on notice that copying is illegal? They are not: no legal system has the principle "ignorance of the law is a valid excuse". Every person is expected to know all of the laws (not to suggest that that is actually possible). If you enter Cambodia with a supply of drugs and do not understand the warning sign in Khmer that tells you that you are breaking the law, you cannot use that ignorance of Cambodian law to escape punishment. However: you have to be in Cambodia for Cambodia to be able to enforce its law. So if you are in country C and view a video that is illegal in country A, country A cannot enforce its law against you, until you go to country A.</p>

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