🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Jan7.162227.18499@ugle.unit.no> robert@alkymi.unit.no (Robert Schmidt) writes:
>Hasn't someone already broken the law by handing the file to garbo,
>which is a finnish site?  I guess garbo can't be blamed for making
>the file public, though, as the law doesn't affect them.

As I said in an earlier posting, it seems that PKWARE has this time
got the permission for exporting.

But just for the argument's sake, consider the following.  I
imported the file from the States.  That is different from someone
exporting it.  With the global electronic village we live in, there
are just two options to stop us non-americans from importing such
material.  The first is not making it availabe IN THE STATES!!!! The
second alternative is disconnecting the transatlantic telephone
links, and severing the overseas computer links. 

Taken to its logical conclusion, no U.S. specific shareware can be
legal in the States unless the North Americans cut off all the
communication links with the rest of the world. 

Followups directed to misc.legal.computing.

   All the best, Timo

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