NODE 29354f9aIntellectual Property and Crypto collision
John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>Sun, 17 Sep 95 13:20:14 PDT
> ELECTRONIC MEDIA PROTECTED UNDER COPYRIGHT LAW
> A presidential task force has recommended that electronic transmission of
> books, magazine articles and software should be classified as copies
> subject to existing copyright laws. The task force also recommended that
> it should be illegal to make or distribute products aimed at decoding
> encrypted software without the consent of the copyright owner.
Would this make it illegal to produce tools for decrypting key-escrowed
software? :-)
John