Excellent - about time judges got a clue

Yeah but 99% of what people share still isn't

That's fine. Go after them. But making P2P networks illegal is about half a step away from making encryption illegal.

Strong encryption is still illegal in some place isn't it? From memory, France had a law against it or something?

Ah. Didn't know it had changed.

Regardless, we're talking about the US. Unless the 9th District carries much more weight than I thought it did.

Yeah but you guys used to forbid the export of strong crypto because it was a munition. I think you still limit it to certain countries but everybody does that.

But it was free for use for anyone inside the US. I'm talking civil rights, really. Unless there's some export ban on P2P software I'm not aware of.

(And, really, the way it's worded is more "everywhere but these countries" and not "only these countries".)

Luckily PGP helped kill that one:) Legal to export a printed copy of the source code for PGP and then use OCR to input to computer in another country - brilliant!

Yeah. That was just weird. As long as it's printed on pieces of dead tree then it's okay to export even if it was made to be easy to OCR! I've got a copy of Applied Crypto and that also was legal to export

The wonders of free speech and art when applied to code as munitions:)

Still, it made sense, as the bad guys would happily take it out of the country anyway - this just made it available to the general public.