On Thu, 13 Jul 1995, Brian A. LaMacchia wrote:
What worries me is the first sentence: "each act of distributing software is considered a predicate act." It's not clear to me whether this applies to (a)(1) unlicensed software or (a)(2) encryption programs (or perhaps both). Notice that (a)(1) says "transfer" not "distribute". Perhaps the act of putting Alleged-RC4 on a FTP site is one act and mailing a copy to Cypherpunks is another act. That might be two distributions and thus two predicate acts.
Of course, when you mail it to the cypherpunks list, the program goes to 500+ people, sot hat's 500+ acts. And who knows how many people connect to the FTP site, but everybody on the internet COULD connect, so that's 40,000,000 acts. Welcome to a 6x6 cell with a roommate named Bubba that wants to make you his wife. ____ Robert A. Hayden <=> Cthulhu Matata \ /__ -=-=-=-=- <=> -=-=-=-=- \/ / Finger for Geek Code Info <=> hayden@krypton.mankato.msus.edu \/ Finger for PGP Public Key <=> http://att2.cs.mankato.msus.edu/~hayden