Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995 (fwd)
L. McCarthy
lmccarth at cs.umass.edu
Mon Jul 17 15:28:00 PDT 1995
Andrew Spring writes:
> This wasn't really my point. Grassley's bill implies that uploading crypto
> to an overseas FTP site would qualify as a predicate act, needed for a RICO
> seizure. I think he is assuming that someone would do this for the
> purposes of making money: and that anything bought with that money would be
> RICOable. I don't think he or anyone else in Congress is aware that people
> tend to do this stuff for free.
I disagree.
Sec. 1030A (a) under S.974 would make it illegal to
"transfer unlicensed computer software,"
*"regardless of whether the transfer is performed for
economic consideration"*.
S.974 would make each such transfer a predicate act
for RICO purposes.
(this message is oddly formatted due to problems I'm
having with my environment right now)
-Futplex
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