🚀 go-pugleaf

strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:

> In response to Bob Heuman, I am coming around to the pragmatic view
> that since the violation of U.S. law is exporting controlled material,
> the violator is the person who downloaded it, not the person who
> put it on a bulletin board. I'm uncomfortable with this, for obvious
> reasons, but never mind.

Really? How nice... So, if you put some top secret information for
anonymous ftp and I happen to get it, it will be me the guilty one,
not you, right? Wanna give it a try? :-)

> We next come to the point of whether the act is a violation of the
> national laws in the country where the downloader is. From what
> responses I've seen so far to that inquiry, it probably is in France,
> Germany, maybe Italy, Canada, and the U.K., not the Netherlands, and not
  ^^^^^^^
> Finland.  I'd like more hard information on this point, though, from
> those who can quote the national laws directly.

As usually, you are wrong. I checked with a person in BSI (the Federal
agency for Information Security in Germany). There are NO restrictions
on importing crypto software in Germany. There are NO restrictions on
using public key encryption software in Germany, although if GATT is
agreed upon, this might change (the US patent laws will apply). When I
asked him all those questions, his reaction was: "What are you speaking
about? PGP? Yeah, I got it too - nice program"...

Regards,
Vesselin
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