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Re: A Chance Encounter with Brad Templeton, of ClariNet
In article <[email protected]>,
Timothy C. May <[email protected]> wrote:
>* I shrugged, and said that, longterm, copyright was dead as we know
>it today. I pointed out that dozens of Cypherpunks-style remailers are
>operational, including many in Europe and elsewhere.
>
>* Brad: "Then they'll be outlawed."
>
>* "And what about the non-U.S. sites?," I asked. He had no good
>answer...
This is why GATT bothers me. Once we have have an alignment of property
laws, particularly IP laws, there's no telling how things will fall.
It's a bad set of failure modes.
>* Brad also expressed the view that the recently passed Digital
>Telephony Act would "force" remailer operators to make their traffic
>available to the proper authorities.
Brad's very wrong. The Senate hearings were very explicit on this
point: Internet providers (as well as people like AOL and Compuserv)
are exempt from DT requirements.
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