Stupid Law

[Rabid Wombat]

So leave the laptop in the hotel safe before going back to the US each 
evening.

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Bob De Witt wrote:

> Yes, it is.  Even if he wrote a program in Mexico, but carried his laptop
> back and forth daily, each piece can come into the US, but cannot leave
> again!  Uuuuuuuuummmmmmm, gooooood!  Read the actual documents.
> 
> 
> Bob De Witt,
> rdew at el.nec.com
> 
> 
> > From anon at anon.efga.org Tue Feb 17 19:44:29 1998
> > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:08:26 -0500
> > From: Anonymous <anon at anon.efga.org>
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> > To: cypherpunks at toad.com
> > 
> > >Doesn't the act of taking it across the border, in the laptop, constitute
> > >an act of export??
> > 
> > Well, yes it would, but the original scenario includes WRITING the code
> > outside of the US, which means it never was a US creation, even if the
> > creature that happened to be writing the code was native to the US.
> > 
> > The question is whether the dude could pull a stunt like this and get
> > away with it. I'd say go for it. You got a plausible loophole to a
> > stupid law that might not hold in court anyways.
> > 
> > -Anon
> > 
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