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Re: Civil Disobediance
Adam Back writes:
:
: Dr Roberts writes:
: > Perhaps there is a way to turn the training on the trainers? Civil
: > disobediance is the best way to do this. Were a relatively small
: > number of people, a thousand for instance, to post the "RSA in 3
: > lines" code to the world, it would be highly unlikely that anybody at
: > all would be prosecuted,
:
: Many 1000s of people have exported it. See also Vince Cate's arms
: trafficker page.
:
: http://online.offshore.com.ai/arms-trafficker/
:
: Around 3000 T-shirts were sold also. Guess there are a fair number of
: people practicing civil disobedience in the US as a result. They're
: still selling, see:
:
: http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/uk-shirt.html
:
: for order info.
:
: While it's probably technically illegal to export, it clearly doesn't
: get you in trouble to export it. Raph Levien sent off a Commodity
: Jurisdiction Request together with a sample T-shirt to ask permission
: to export the T-shirt under the ITAR regulations. They did not answer
: his request. I presume that they viewed either a "yes" or a "no" as a
: loose for them. If they say no, they open themselves for mockery in
: the press, if they say yes, we progress the situation. Export on
: paper? Floppy? Internet? Bigger programs.
Under the new Commerce Department export regulations it appears that
encryption software printed as hard copy---and I think that T-shirts
are hard enough for this purpose---can be freely exported. But
the same material in electronic form may not be exported or placed on
a web site without a license. So the T-shirts are now OK, but under
the EAR it is still an offense to send the code in a sigfile to an
international e-mail list.
It is possible that the application for permission to export the
T-shirt may have influenced this result.
(What is Raph Levien's e-mail address? I would like to ask him the
details about his application for a Commodity Jurisdictionb Request.
It should be an amusing footnote in my casebook for my course in
computers and the law.)
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: [email protected] URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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