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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
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