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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Keyservers and anonymous Mailings
Newsgroups: mail.cypherpunks
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Organization: An Teallach Limited
In article <[email protected]> you write:
:If PKP is going to employ this tactic, it seems that even the
:'new' keyservers that run as simple databases and thus are not a
:copyright question are subject to harassment in the least, even if
:unfounded. If this is true, would anonymous remailing provide a
:buffer of some type?
First of all, I wrote the new replacement keyserver and I happen
to know it isn't even released yet (except to a handful of people
for the purposes of testing portability and ease of installation etc),
so it is not *possible* that the new sites have been harassed, and I
think you should wait until it happens before you start worrying about
it. As I've said before, all these keyservers will be doing is
*publishing* information, and that's a protected right in the US.
Now, if pkp choose to start chasing down people who publish their
keys and asking them if they have a license (assuming they're in
the US and need one), that's a different thing altogether, but
that could happen at the moment given that the actual keys are
up for ftp all over already. A keyserver that doesn't patent (or
copyright? Who told you that?) infringe *cannot* be closed down
even if the people whose keys are published *are* harassed.
Anyway, the keyservers have to exist for the benefit of both ViaCrypt
customers and European FreePGP users.
G