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The Internet is a relatively new phenomenon, which presents both remarkable possibilities, as well as, immense social and political challenges to most contemporary societies. One of the most important and certainly the most contentious of these challenges is the issue of jurisdiction. What makes this debate seem at times almost insurmountable is the lack of consensus on how, and what kind of decision-making process there should be to regulate cyberspace. The following paper will look at several aspects of this complex phenomenon, while focusing on the differing and distinct issues evolving around the regulation of behaviour in this medium. As such, the blurring lines between the more traditional forms of law and the latent ambiguities that have arisen in cyberspace have been all too apparent. Consequently the inability of present judicial systems to successfully sanction criminal behaviour has effectively seen a newer type of criminal emerge. By specifically using the...

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