I think it would still happen, because of the problem of jurisdictions. Short of having a worldwide internet police, how would one deal with a hacker from India breaking into American Facebook accounts? Sounds like a heck of a lot of bureaucracy to me...
What I had in mind as a "law" was the idea of countries signing open agreements to investigate fraud / felonies on each other's territories - which does sound like a worldwide internet police. And I don't even know how I'd feel about that, with surveillance and all that still being a touchy matter.
The main reason why I'd accept it is because the US feels like it's already abusing the privilege and assuming control, as seen in Kim Dotcom's Megaupload affair, when FBI seized his offshore goods.
However, different countries have far different rules about the internet in their own countries. It's one thing to have the US and NZ working to seize Kim Dotcom's goods - those are both western, developed countries. I think it would be far more difficult to get every country on the same page. China and its Great Firewall is one example that springs to mind, but many other countries in Asia and the Middle East also have moratoriums on content that the US and other western countries wouldn't bat an eye at. Not to mention the issues that deep web, VPN use, Tor, etc. would cause.
Never mind that governments use hacking and malware to disrupt the inner workings of nations with whom they don't see eye-to-eye. It just seems like a big can of worms.
I think it would still happen, because of the problem of jurisdictions. Short of having a worldwide internet police, how would one deal with a hacker from India breaking into American Facebook accounts? Sounds like a heck of a lot of bureaucracy to me...
Definitely would be a big issue.
What I had in mind as a "law" was the idea of countries signing open agreements to investigate fraud / felonies on each other's territories - which does sound like a worldwide internet police. And I don't even know how I'd feel about that, with surveillance and all that still being a touchy matter.
The main reason why I'd accept it is because the US feels like it's already abusing the privilege and assuming control, as seen in Kim Dotcom's Megaupload affair, when FBI seized his offshore goods.
However, different countries have far different rules about the internet in their own countries. It's one thing to have the US and NZ working to seize Kim Dotcom's goods - those are both western, developed countries. I think it would be far more difficult to get every country on the same page. China and its Great Firewall is one example that springs to mind, but many other countries in Asia and the Middle East also have moratoriums on content that the US and other western countries wouldn't bat an eye at. Not to mention the issues that deep web, VPN use, Tor, etc. would cause.
Never mind that governments use hacking and malware to disrupt the inner workings of nations with whom they don't see eye-to-eye. It just seems like a big can of worms.
You'll have to also keep in mind the right to be forgotten thing that's been going on in France.