Archive for December, 2004

WSJ weighs on the baazee.com issue

Monday, December 20th, 2004

WSJ is covering($ Subscription required) the story this morning about baazi.com’s CEO. Focused mainly on indian law of allowing criminal charges against the CEO of a company (which is not the case in the US).
BTW, you need WSJ subscription for the link to work. I hope i can blog about a article and make the […]

more background on the previous story

Saturday, December 18th, 2004

The story on rediff gives the entire background. Looks like the folks arrested were not really connected to the original event.

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Amazing sex/internet law related scandal in india

Saturday, December 18th, 2004

In a rather shocking story, CEO of baazi.com (indian version of ebay) was arrested because there was an amateur porn video sold on that site. I guess it’s amazing how quickly things change in india.. pre-marital sex was taboo few years back, not the first amateur video being sold.

This is interesting from several angles

Cultural […]