In article <199411220020.QAA08980@netcom6.netcom.com>, Timothy C. May <tcmay@netcom.com> wrote:
* I shrugged, and said that, longterm, copyright was dead as we know it today. I pointed out that dozens of Cypherpunks-style remailers are operational, including many in Europe and elsewhere.
* Brad: "Then they'll be outlawed."
* "And what about the non-U.S. sites?," I asked. He had no good answer...
This is why GATT bothers me. Once we have have an alignment of property laws, particularly IP laws, there's no telling how things will fall. It's a bad set of failure modes.
* Brad also expressed the view that the recently passed Digital Telephony Act would "force" remailer operators to make their traffic available to the proper authorities.
Brad's very wrong. The Senate hearings were very explicit on this point: Internet providers (as well as people like AOL and Compuserv) are exempt from DT requirements. -- Todd Masco | According to the US dept of Justice Stats, 3.98% of the US cactus@hks.net | population is in prison, the highest count in the world. We cactus@bb.com | live in a police state and are lulled by notions of normalcy.