Posted by: wfaulk
P2P networks found legal!
Posted by: frog51
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 23/08/2004 14:40
Excellent - about time judges got a clue 
Posted by: tman
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 23/08/2004 14:43
Yeah but 99% of what people share still isn't
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 23/08/2004 14:48
That's fine. Go after them. But making P2P networks illegal is about half a step away from making encryption illegal.
Posted by: tman
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 23/08/2004 14:59
Strong encryption is still illegal in some place isn't it? From memory, France had a law against it or something?
Posted by: peter
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 23/08/2004 15:20
Quote:
From memory, France had a law against it or something?
Used to -- not any more.
Peter
Posted by: tman
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 23/08/2004 15:28
Ah. Didn't know it had changed.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 23/08/2004 15:28
Regardless, we're talking about the US. Unless the 9th District carries much more weight than I thought it did.
Posted by: tman
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 23/08/2004 15:30
Yeah but you guys used to forbid the export of strong crypto because it was a munition. I think you still limit it to certain countries but everybody does that.
Posted by: wfaulk
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 23/08/2004 15:36
But it was free for use for anyone inside the US. I'm talking civil rights, really. Unless there's some export ban on P2P software I'm not aware of.
(And, really, the way it's worded is more "everywhere but these countries" and not "only these countries".)
(And, really, the way it's worded is more "everywhere but these countries" and not "only these countries".)
Posted by: frog51
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 24/08/2004 06:12
Luckily PGP helped kill that one:) Legal to export a printed copy of the source code for PGP and then use OCR to input to computer in another country - brilliant!
Posted by: tman
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 24/08/2004 10:18
Yeah. That was just weird. As long as it's printed on pieces of dead tree then it's okay to export even if it was made to be easy to OCR! I've got a copy of Applied Crypto and that also was legal to export
Posted by: frog51
Re: P2P networks found legal! - 24/08/2004 10:25
The wonders of free speech and art when applied to code as munitions:)
Still, it made sense, as the bad guys would happily take it out of the country anyway - this just made it available to the general public.
Still, it made sense, as the bad guys would happily take it out of the country anyway - this just made it available to the general public.