[14358] in Cypherpunks
Re: "illegal": law and tort
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crookes)
Sat May 28 08:44:51 1994
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 13:30:26 +0100 (BST)
From: Dave Crookes <D.J.Crookes@sheffield.ac.uk>
To: Eric Hughes <hughes@ah.com>
Cc: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <9405280516.AA25630@ah.com>
On Fri, 27 May 1994, Eric Hughes wrote:
> Now, if someone in Europe were to use PGP 2.6, what could RSADSI do
> about it? They could sue in civil court for damages. Which court?
> If in the USA, then their remedy is limited to what the USA civil
> court can order, and if the European user were to have no assets in
> the USA, that's pretty much the end of the remedy. If the court were
> in Europe, RSADSI would have to sue in a European court. Now _you_
> guess what that costs. For an individual user, there's almost nothing
> to worry about.
What if the European user obtains PGP 2.6 from a European site, then rips out
the RSAREF code, and makes it use Phil's original code from 2.3a, and then
distributes this copy. Is there still a copyright violation on RSADSI?
Is there one on MIT ?
Dave
