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Re: Can the inevitability of Software privacy be used to defeat the ITAR?
Hey folks, let's be real clear about this:
The ITAR do NOT apply to books.
Repeat:
The ITAR do NOT apply to books.
On Fri, 12 Jul 1996, Mark M. wrote:
[...]
> This isn't quite analogous to the original problem of a software company making
> good-faith efforts to prevent a program from being exported. AFAIK, MIT did
> not try to prevent the book from being exported (of course, the State
> Department never did approve or deny their request to export the book). Sandia
State told Karn that it did not have jurisdiction over books.
> could claim that MIT came very close to violating ITAR, but the same claim
"The ITAR do not apply to books"
> could not be made if the issue was a software program which was
> export-controlled.
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