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- From: pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
- Subject: Re: Legal Stuff!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.030142.20178@shearson.com>
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- References: <1992Dec21.203115.12176@netcom.com> <a_rubin.724977120@dn66> <1992Dec22.015459.21651@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:01:42 GMT
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- strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
-
- >You seem not to be listening here. The issue of the legality of PGP is
- >not a patent one but a Munitions Act one, since the U.S. copies were
- >brought in from outside the U.S. without a Munitions Act import
- >license, and since PGP includes IDEA, it requires one.
-
- Do you have evidence of this? How do you know that PGP wasn't produced
- inside the US by anonymous people with fake outside authors being used
- as fronts? You don't have any real evidence that any of the claimed
- authors on the package even exist. Claiming a crime has been committed
- without even having conducted the most rudimentary of investigations
- seems hasty, especially for one so concerned with ethics and morality
- and precision. Furthermore, according to what I have seen, the
- criminals would seem to be the importers -- but you have no knowledge
- of who actually imported the product, if it was indeed imported. Given
- that the alleged criminals are completely unknown, and likely at this
- point wholely unidentifiable, it would seem to be extraordinarily
- difficult to conduct a prosecution.
-
- --
- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
- --
- Laissez faire, laissez passer. Le monde va de lui meme.
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