Can you legally unplug an intelligent computer
Law in Order in a world not known - Unplugging BINA48
My favorite futurist Rai Kurzweil has set up a fictious court battle at the International Bar Association conference in San Francisco, Sept. 16, 2003. The case involves the first intellegigent computer BINA8 and if the company who owns "it" would be allowed to pull the plug. Highly interesting peek in the future and the problems this society will face rather sooner then later:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0594.html