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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: Legal Stuff!
- In-Reply-To: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.131928.13715@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Dec18.153529.18137@penet.fi> <1992Dec19.211405.22406@netcom.com> <bontchev.724943800@fbihh> <1992Dec21.203115.12176@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:19:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.203115.12176@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom (David Sternlight) writes:
- >Next Vesselin claims U.S. users may obtain PGP legally from a number
- >of U.S. sites, which he lists. He is mistaken. It is on those sites
- >illegally, for reasons stated just above, and ftping them to other
- >U.S. sites is just as illegal. It does not matter who did the
- >importing; possession of illegally imported munitions is illegal.
- >Maybe in Bulgaria what is physically possible is equivalent to what is
- >legal, but not in the U.S.
-
- Could you site the law which makes this illegal? Has anyone been
- convicted of this?
-
- //Jyrki
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