[hackerspaces] Radio Shack Hackerspace Challenge: $1000 Prize!

[Don Ankney]

Somehow I'm guessing that your hackerspace doesn't have the same risk profile as a corporate entity such as Radio Shack. Coming up with rules that meet the legal requirements of every global legal jurisdiction means teams of lawyers just to get domain expertise in every jurisdiction.

I doubt that the value of the contest to the company outweighs the cost of the legal review, which means the alternative to a US-only contest is no contest at all.

Is that really preferable?
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From: Frederic Muller - DFF<mailto:fred at digitalfreedomfoundation.org>
Sent: ‎5/‎24/‎2013 10:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Radio Shack Hackerspace Challenge: $1000 Prize!

Hi!

As someone running a non-profit in the US for the past 7 years and
shipping money, goodies and prizes all over the world, the only
restriction is not to ship to terrorist. So each time we ship we need to
check if the address is not in a specific list given by the US government.

And we ship a lot more than U$1000...

Fred

On 05/25/2013 01:14 PM, Al Billings wrote:
> Are you a lawyer? Does your hackerspace have a pet lawyer?
>
> --
> Al Billings
> http://www.openbuddha.com
> http://makehacklearn.org
>
> On Friday, May 24, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Yves Quemener wrote:
>
>> I mean, Apple managed to dodge the US fiscal code totally legally, how
>> hard
>> could it be to make an honest, ethical, international, non-anonymous,
>> fiscally declared, monetary prize? On this list we have legal non-profits
>> (and for profits) of various legal status in a variety of jurisdictions
>> that would be willing to cooperate toward that. We have tools like
>> bitcoin.
>> Heh, I wouldn't be surprised that some guys from bitcoin-central would
>> read
>> this list (hey guys! say hi!) which is officially recognized as a BANK in
>> France.
>>
>
>
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