On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:56:06PM +0100, Malcolm Parsons wrote: > > non-US is for software that can not be *exported* from the US, it is legal > to use it *everywhere*. that is not true, some countries ban import and use of cryptography, france used to and iirc china still does. > It is illegal to *import* a circumvention device, like CSS, into the US. > AFAIK it is legal to use CSS everywhere *except the US*. just as its legal to use cryptography most places, with a few exceptions. > non-US is not an appropriate place for CSS distribution. Something else would > be needed for distribution of CSS code. why not? its appropriate for cryptography which is forbidden in a few fascist parts of the world, i don't really see much difference with a peice of software that just happens to only be forbidden in a different country then usual. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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