[117667] in Cypherpunks
Once you go black, you'll never go back
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Wed Sep 8 14:52:34 1999
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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:16:08 -0700
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From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: EXT Nathaly Vermette [mailto:nathalyv@ocongreen.qc.ca]
>Sent: 8. September 1999 9:06 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Location of server irrelevant in UK.
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>Location of server irrelevant in UK.
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>Wherever Your Servers Are, You're Here
>UK case may set precedent.....
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>Graham Waddon, a 29-year-old businessman from Surrey, England was given
>an 18-month suspended sentence for running the UK's largest porn
>operation from servers located in America. Until now, it was unclear
>whether individuals could be prosecuted for distributing pornography if
>their servers were outside the UK. In a landmark ruling Judge
>Christopher Hardy ruled the images were uploaded from the UK and were
>therefore subject to British law.
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>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2329295,00.html
Which is why "our" approach (remailers, nyms, data havens, digital cash,
etc.) has the advantages it does.
And the situation above is not unique to Britain. U.S. laws treat "Internet
casinos" as being subject to similar sanctions for U.S. operators and
users, even if the casinos are located in Caribbean locales. Other examples
abound.
The longterm solution for the British porn site operator--if there's a
future in Internet porn sites at all--and for other purveyers of sensitive
material is to "go black."
("Once you go black, you'll never go back.")
Counting on regulatory arbitrage over technical solutions is not a viable
long term strategy. Especially not as states become increasing desperate.
Whether the sensitive material is abortion information, Holocaust denial
literature, money laundering services, pornography, military reports,
whatever, only technical means will protect those involved.
--Tim May
Don't tread on me.
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
"Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
