NODE a3915e52Re: Let's Say "No!" to Single, World Versions of Software
Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>Sat, 3 Aug 1996 05:34:18 +0800
At 02:16 PM 7/31/96 -0700, Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com> wrote:
>The only thing they can revoke is their permission to provide it for
>download over the internet. They can't revoke our permission to sell
>it in stores or via snail mail.
They _could_ refuse to give export permission for new RC4/40 versions,
and threaten prosecution if it's placed on the Internet.
It would be highly bogus, of course, but that's one of the "benefits"
of using selective enforcement and having the export strength limitations
be an individual-case-basis rather than a defined law they can be held to.
Tim wrote:
> Actually approving of disapproving a piece of software for sale
> to U.S. citizens is not currently possible.
Sure. The Commerce Klaus of the Constitution lets them do it
if they want to, though that required Congressional cooperation.
TRUST NO ONE!
NODE 10947377Re: Let's Say "No!" to Single, World Versions of Software
Rich Graves <rich@c2.org>Sat, 3 Aug 1996 09:53:43 +0800
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On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, some provocateur impersonating Bill Stewart wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > Actually approving of disapproving a piece of software for sale
> > to U.S. citizens is not currently possible.
>
> Sure. The Commerce Klaus of the Constitution lets them do it
> if they want to, though that required Congressional cooperation.
That would certainly be less of a stretch than some other commerce clause
cases. Crypto can be used interstate, and there's a compelling state
interest in form of The Four Horsemen. Heck, we should all thank our lucky
stars that our freedom-loving congresscritters let us use computers at all.
I believe it was Wickard who was told he couldn't grow food to feed his own
pigs because the government has a compelling state interest in keeping
interstate food prices high. Surely terrorism and kiddie porn, which is all
people ever use the net (let alone crypto) for, are even more important than
high food prices.
> TRUST NO ONE!
Indeed.
- -rich
fucking statist
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