Re: Let's Say "No!" to Single, World Versions of Software
At 02:16 PM 7/31/96 -0700, Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com> wrote:
The only thing they can revoke is their permission to provide it for download over the internet. They can't revoke our permission to sell it in stores or via snail mail.
They _could_ refuse to give export permission for new RC4/40 versions, and threaten prosecution if it's placed on the Internet. It would be highly bogus, of course, but that's one of the "benefits" of using selective enforcement and having the export strength limitations be an individual-case-basis rather than a defined law they can be held to. Tim wrote:
Actually approving of disapproving a piece of software for sale to U.S. citizens is not currently possible.
Sure. The Commerce Klaus of the Constitution lets them do it if they want to, though that required Congressional cooperation. TRUST NO ONE!
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Tim wrote:
Actually approving of disapproving a piece of software for sale to U.S. citizens is not currently possible.
Sure. The Commerce Klaus of the Constitution lets them do it if they want to, though that required Congressional cooperation.
That would certainly be less of a stretch than some other commerce clause cases. Crypto can be used interstate, and there's a compelling state interest in form of The Four Horsemen. Heck, we should all thank our lucky stars that our freedom-loving congresscritters let us use computers at all. I believe it was Wickard who was told he couldn't grow food to feed his own pigs because the government has a compelling state interest in keeping interstate food prices high. Surely terrorism and kiddie porn, which is all people ever use the net (let alone crypto) for, are even more important than high food prices.
TRUST NO ONE!
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