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[NOISE] ITAR Satellite

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Oct 3 20:54:01 1996

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: froomkin@law.miami.edu (Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law)
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 18:46:19 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.961003140348.764J-100000@viper.law.miami.edu> from "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" at Oct 3, 96 02:05:43 pm
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com

Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law sez:
> 
> Alas, a common fallacy.
> 
> You have committed a prohibited export when the stuff lands outside the
> USA....It's not illegal when it goes up ("by reason of the launching" and,
> e.g. *stays up* in orbit)  but it is illegal when it comes down abroad. 
> 

"I just shoots them, who CARES where they come down?
It's not my department, said Werner Von Braun...."

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