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Fw: Freedom to Tinker: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Fri Mar 28 09:59:54 2003
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:56:56 -0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From another mailing list;
Not being from the US, I have very little idea if this is a reality based
simply on this story...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Feustel" <dfeustel@mindspring.com>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:31 PM
Subject: Freedom to Tinker: Use a Firewall, Go to Jail
> Use a Firewall, Go to Jail
>
> The states of Massachusetts and Texas are preparing to
> consider bills that apparently are intended to extend the
> national Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (TX bill; MA bill)
> The bills are obviously related to each other somehow,
> since they are textually similar.
>
> Here is one example of the far-reaching harmful effects of
> these bills. Both bills would flatly ban the possession, sale,
> or use of technologies that "conceal from a communication
> service provider ... the existence or place of origin or
> destination of any communication". Your ISP is a communcation
> service provider, so anything that concealed the origin or
> destination of any communication from your ISP would be
> illegal -- with no exceptions.
>
> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html
>
>
