[ale] those of you reading this while within US jurisdiction should have a care....

[Jim]

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On Wednesday 16 October 2002 02:48 pm, Kilroy, Chris wrote:
> to the point about a ballot box, it is hard for the ballot box to make a
> difference because the electorate knows *nothing* about this issue.  The
> percentage of the population that does understand the ramifications of DMCA
> will have to educate some of them, as well as educate politicians about the
> matter.

I think the issue will play out much like the restrictions we used to have on 
encryption strength. You couldn't export anything with encryption stronger 
than 40 bits. As a result, other countries just started making their own 
applications with 128 bit encryption and putting them out for download from 
any country.  All of those things that are forbidden under the DMCA will 
happily continue in other countries, but the "offenders" will have to be 
careful about entering the United States. Sooner or later, somebody will 
realize that the rest of the world is denying us business opportunities 
because of our silly restrictions and the DMCA will come under closer 
scrutiny.
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