Alphabet soup.

Remember the Garry McKinnon case (see post dated 4/9/08)? That seemed to be based on the legal principle that if you used a computer in country A to access a website in country B, then the legality, or otherwise, of what you had done would be settled according to the laws of country B. I suggested then that there were problems associated with such an approach, but at least it appeared to clarify what the position was. But now we are told that if you access the Camelot website, in order to buy a ticket for the Lottery, from a country where it is against the law to participate in other countries' lotteries, the ticket will be void - in other words, it is country A's law that matters, not country B's! What a mess.