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Eire is Part of the USA According to US Court

posted by LaminatorX on Monday August 04 2014, @12:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the Erin-go-Here dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

Microsoft has been ordered to provide documents stored in an Ireland data centre to the US government. http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2014/08/microsoft-ordered-hand-over-dublin-data. Will this hinder US companies offering cloud services?

 
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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Horse With Stripes on Monday August 04 2014, @12:27PM

    by Horse With Stripes (577) on Monday August 04 2014, @12:27PM (#77174)

    Will this hinder US companies offering cloud services?

    No, this won't because we all predicted that US courts (acting in the best interests of the US government and their alphabet soup of TLA's) would rule anything owned by, or under the control of, a US company or one of its subsidiaries would be subject to US laws as well as unlawful acts of strong-arming, coercion and clandestine operations.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by WillR on Monday August 04 2014, @01:48PM

    by WillR (2012) on Monday August 04 2014, @01:48PM (#77199)
    Except tax laws. Setting up a subsidiary in Ireland to own all your IP, and then "licensing" it back at a rate that just coincidentally moves almost all your profits to the Irish company is still totally legitimate.

    • (Score: 1) by Horse With Stripes on Monday August 04 2014, @03:53PM

      by Horse With Stripes (577) on Monday August 04 2014, @03:53PM (#77249)

      is still totally legitimate.

      You mean totally legal. I'm not so sure about its legitimateness.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @07:14PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @07:14PM (#77312)

        Legitimacy.

      • (Score: 3) by WillR on Monday August 04 2014, @08:39PM

        by WillR (2012) on Monday August 04 2014, @08:39PM (#77349)
        Touché, sir Horse.