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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality
- In-Reply-To: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.004133.1431@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <Bz7J39.8tD@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Dec13.192149.8211@netcom.com> <WCS.92Dec13192805@rainier.ATT.COM> <1992Dec14.014118.11612@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:41:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.014118.11612@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom (David Sternlight) writes:
- >If my understanding is now accurate that PGP2.x violates both the
- >Munitions Act and PKP's patents, and that this violation is occasioned
- >not just by use but also by possession in the U.S., then it would seem
- >prudent to get it off one's U.S. computers and any U.S. net
- >sites--Internet, Usenet, Fidonet, anynet. Presence on a bulletin board
- >system may be just what someone needs to close down that system.
-
- Actually, what comes to my mind is to get PGP 2.X on each and every
- U.S. computer, net site, Usenet host, Fidonet, anynet - and then each
- and every computer owner, net site, Fidonet, anynet could report
- themselves to the Proper Authorities as illegal international arms
- traders.
-
- Is anyone familiar with the concept of "civil disobedience"?
-
- Of course it's easy for me to say things like this.
-
- >Finally, given my understanding, the notion that if it's uploaded all
- >over the place, what can "they" do seems to betray a lack of both
- >realism and ethics. Try the argument that if lots of people take
- >cocaine, what can "they" do? to see this.
-
- If all the people who smoke marijuana would do it openly and not stop
- smoking it openly even though put through the system, "they" would
- either just have to simply swallow it and repeal the law or start a
- civil war. The problem is that after "they" shoot/put for life in
- jail/fine $2M/hang/whatever a couple of those doing it openly the rest
- will stop doing it openly. Divide and conquer.
-
- //Jyrki
-