One would generally consider the location of the server and where the publisher conducts its business when posed with questions of the place of publication of articles via the Internet and the applicable law. Recent cases show these may not the only relevant factors of consideration.
The first case to attract attention was the French Government vs Yahoo. The French Government ruled that Yahoo had breached the French anti-racism legislation by offering Nazi memorabilia on its auction web site. It sent shock waves round the world as the Yahoo web site and servers were located in USA. Web operators began to ask themselves, " will we be subject to all the laws of the countries within the reach of the World Wide Web?" Yahoo was given 3 months to come up with a mechanism to stop French nationals from accessing the said web site failure of which it would have to pay a hefty fine. Before the 3 months time limit was up, Yahoo announced that it would scrap the web site to avoid
